Re: CHAT: weird names

"J. Barefoot" wrote:
> I don't know. How'd "Sally" come from "Sarah"?
Sally comes from Sarah?  I take your point about irregularity, I was
just wondering if there were a conhistorical reason, like maybe borrowed
from a common source thru different languages, like John and Jeanette
(sp?).

Names in Watakass=ED almost always mean something.  Commonly the names ar=
e
formed by taking parts of words, usually the high-pitched parts, and
combining them, like _kanp=E1_, [kampa] (beloved child/loving child) from
sliK=C1N (child) + uP=C1 (to love).  _kanp=E1_ has a diminuitive _kam=E1_=
,
formed by simplifying the [mp] cluster.  These are the stem forms, they
do, of course, take the gender-prefixes ti- (feminine) and na-
(masculine), thus tikanp=E1/tikam=E1 (also tyam=E1) and nakanp=E1/nakam=E1=
 (and
also nam=E1)

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speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
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