Re: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 3, 1999, 0:48 |
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At 18:51 11/02/1999 -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>> As it is, I call my pet cat "Kaetzelienileinichen"
>
>Good gosh, that's a long word! What are the morphemes there? I see
>-chen, and I assume "kaetz" is "cat"?
>
Kaetz is a diminutive of Katze 'cat' 'lienileini' is a conglomeration of
diminutives in baby talk. Sometimes I add a second -chen to the end for
scansion.
Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
http://pw2.netcom.com/~sylvia1/