Re: Weekly Vocab 19

--- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> Adam Walker wrote:
> > > If I paid him, perhaps he would make me a
> sandwich.            ^^^^^^
> >
> > Si siu pagajevu, munchin pera mi juna ingueza
> fachud.
> >                          ^^^^^^
> I noticed "munchin" = 'perhaps' in an earlier batch
> of sentences.  What is
> the source? (and the pronunciation)?
>
> It looks a lot like Malay _mungkin_  'possible,
> ---ly', also used for
> 'maybe, perhaps'.  AFAIK it's not Arabic but I could
> be wrong.
Well, actually it is arabic.  I can't currently
remember which dialect I borrowed it from.  In
Egyptian it's yimkin.  I'm thinking I used a Dardja
pronunciation, but it could have been Morrocan.  I've
had great trouble choosing a dialect for my Arabic
borrowings.

Adam


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Il prori ul pa&#38621;veju fi dji atexindu mutu madji
fached. -- Carrajena proverb

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