Re: Conlang Website
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 17, 2000, 4:24 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> The Rokbeigalm don't believe in standardized, ritualized set-time prayer.
> Their word for "worship", _peres_, comes from a Proto-Elven root meaning
> "to disturb".
The Utakassí word for "worship" is _kúkutai_, which was derived from an
irregular partial reduplication of _kútai_ (to respect). Well,
actually, kókotahi/kótahi in Common Kassí. It's irregular in that the
stress should've remained on the second <ko>, i.e., been _kokótahi_
(*kukútai)
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