Re: electronyms
| From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 13, 2007, 20:57 |
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Ray Brown wrote:
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>Welsh: trydan <-- tân "fire" with the prefix _try-_ (plus soft mutation)
>"through, inner". Thus 'electricity' is, so to speak, 'the fire within
>things.'
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>Breton similarly has _tredan_.
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That's very poetic......
Kash:
celiya ~ciliya electric, electricity (I think), colloq. celi -- borrowed I
think from Gwr dzay lliÿ [dzaj d`_l`i1] 'alive+lightning'; lliÿ can also
mean 'electric', and fawh lliÿ flow+electric= current-- I suppose Fang King
Beng was flying a kite one stormy day...
More Kash:
ruwi celi(ya) flow+electric = current
cakaceli(ya) 'to get an electric shock'
cekici (dimin.) ~ceki-ceki 'static electricity--the minor jolts one
experiences by walking on carpet or rubbing the fur the wrong way' (cek BTW
is onomat. for 'lightning flash/bolt'
celici ~cilici (dimin.) electronic (but no 'electron'...)
In order of invention (by the Gwr, of course)--
celuri (colloq. curi) elec+write 'telegraph'
celicur (cicur) ...+narrate 'radio'
celiçit (ciçit) ...+talk 'telephone'
celikaçet (cika) ...+picture 'TV'
celipin (cipin) ...+think 'computer'
kandraput celi (thing-that-stores+...) (puceli) battery (esp. for cars)
rather obvious, but I had fun deriving those