Re: Male and female animals

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:42:33 -0500 Herman Miller <hmiller@...> writes:
> On the other hand, it might be interesting to do without specific
> words
> entirely, even for humans! So "woman" would be "she-human" (urvi^va)
> and
> "buck" would be "he-deer" (mi^vo.^sa).
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Rokbeigalmki works like that:
iz = she
oz = he

mald = human being
i-mald = woman
o-mald = man

beijambal = bear
i-beijambal = she-bear
o-beijambal = he-bear

slyihthl = snake
i-slyihthl = she-snake
o-slyihthl = he-snake

You could (if you really wanted) use the epicene/common prefix |uh-| to
specify "human (or whatever) of indeterminate/nonimportant gender", or
|u-| for 'neuter'.  But that'd only be used for say, androgynous statues
or images.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "throw your hands in the air"