Re: CHAT: Rumpelstiltskin (was Re: milimpulaktasin)

John Cowan wrote:

> > milim   "beautiful"  and  "ugly"
> > pulak   "red"        and  "mad"
> > tasin   "bird"       and  "gnome"
> >
> > _Milim_ might be a problem :-P
> Not at all. "Beautiful" and "ugly" both mean "substantially
> deviant from the norm in aesthetic appearance".
John, that's excellent!!!

> And of course this leads to the conclusion that in
> this culture, gnomes are really a sort of mythical
> intelligent flightless bird (an emu or cassowary,
> perhaps).
Haha! :)

This gives three new entries in my growing wordlist:

milim     substantially deviant from the norm in aesthetic
          appearance, i.e. be beautiful or be ugly

pulak     1) be red 2) be angry/mad

tasin     1) bird 2) the name of a mythological creature,
          which kidnaps babies. It resembles a large
          flightless bird, not unlike the one on Sesame
          Street.

[ I've updated my site on Pimak too. See my sig. ]

||| daniel

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