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Re: You have a word for it?

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Sunday, January 27, 2002, 5:48
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Kuaa-/Kuag-: Prefix indicating "without a specific purpose; randomly; > aimlessly"
There's also: laa-/la- "unit of", for example, pitaklu "sand", pilaataklu "grain of sand" -kan: Child of; product of. For example, Dikau "Goddess", Dikaukan "Goddess-child; angel"; pitaklu "sand", pitaklan (cont. of pitakluklan < pitaklukan) "glass"; Uadlikan "fire", pidlikankan "ash" (with a change of gender) Sutaitla: Very good friend, a person with whom you clicked immediately, with whom you felt an immediate connection. The Kassi believe that everyone has two souls, and that upon death, those two souls are split up, and reincarnated into different bodies, being united with different souls. A _sutaitla_ is a person of whom it is believed that, in a previous life, one of his souls and one of your souls shared a body. The word is derived from tai- "person associated with" plus tla "soul" (by itself, somewhat archaic). It's rather like the English concepts of "best friend" and "soulmate" Also, in post-Classical times, sunistuu (person of the same village) was used metaphorically for a person with common interests -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42