Re: electronyms
| From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 15, 2007, 13:03 |
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--- R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> John Vertical wrote:
> [snip]
> > The crutch is that Finnish doesn't really derive
> _sähkö_ from anywhere -
> > it's a completely inanalyzable word with no
> secondary meanings, basically an
> > a priori coinage with some vaig phonesthetic
> influences. I was wondering if
> > any other natlang also does THAT.
>
> An a_priori coinage? Interesting - I'm not aware of
> any natlang that
> does that for electricity.
>
Again, Kazakh has the word /tOq/, which is completely
undrelated to anything and means electrical power.
The lights go out because /tOq jOq/ - no power.
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