Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 11, 1999, 15:55 |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:
>=20
> Anyway actually im kind of interested in the idea of using the first
> syllables of words to create new ones. Perhaps it could be for a ritual
> language? :).
>=20
Compounds in Denden are regularly formed by reducing the first part
to its first syllable, then adding the second part:
s=FCmis 'wine' + maszi 'goblet' (lit. large glass': s=FCmaszi 'wine goblet'
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt