Re: Butterflies
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 18, 2003, 14:14 |
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The Omeina word is Suisku (from a root sui- apparently meaning "light,
float", that sort of thing). The sequence -ui- is pronounced as in French
( Polysynthetic language - Pah!! ;-) ) so the phoneme for the u is that
'inverted lowercase m'; not sure what the SAMPA character is!
Omeina really does not like reduplication and tries to avoid it - but I
suppose you could see the s-s- consonant base as reduplication. Sorry, no
out-and-out labials unless you count the u in the diphthong; the terminal -u
is a relict noun classifier morpheme rather than part of any sound
symbolism.
Mike
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