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Re: Weekly Vocab #1.2.1 (repost #1)

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 10:35
Philip Newton wrote:

> quoting me: >> G: lusim (bind together) > > Funny; that looks like Pidgin for "untie" to me! ("loose" + transitive > suffix -im)
Hm, interesting. I guess a Pidgin user would have a slight problem learning Gaajan, then. G lusim is from lus 'bind' < proto-NEC lut.V-, plus a comitative ending which I have backtracked from Basque. Surprising that anyone at all reads this stuff... LEF