Re: CHAT: Rumpelstiltskin (was Re: milimpulaktasin)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Friday, May 4, 2001, 3:24 |
daniel andreasson wrote:
> Anyway. So I guess _milimpulaktasin_ besides "beautiful
> red bird" also might mean "ugly mad gnome". This leads
> to the following homophones:
>
> milim "beautiful" and "ugly"
> pulak "red" and "mad"
> tasin "bird" and "gnome"
Do roots have to be bisyllabic? Because if not, you could say _mil_ =
ugly, impulak = "mad"
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