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Tasratal: sketch: connectives

From:Lukasz Korczewski <lucasso@...>
Date:Sunday, December 9, 2001, 19:41
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:21:07 -0000 > From: jogloran <exponent@...> > Subject: Re: Tasratal: sketch: connectives (long) > > > Yeah...the nouns they list in Appendix 2 have *separate* plain and > > honorific forms that don't look at all related to each > other. "Chip" > > (house, plain) vs. "daek" (house, honorific); > > Hmm, I wonder if that's in any way related to Japanese (o)taku, > honorific for "(someone else's) house"?
Aren't both Chinese? And AFAIK large part of Kanji (and it's pronounciation) went into Japan trough Korea so the relationship may be very close. -- Lukasz K. -- Tego nie znajdziesz w zadnym sklepie! [ http://oferty.onet.pl ]