Re: Taxonomic list (and Re: poll 30? (long...Sal at her most voluble)

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:32:08 -0400 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
>
> > Sally:
> > I should have a purely Teonaht word for "rose."
> >
> > Which reminds me, I preferred the native Teo words to the IE
> borrowings.
> > Partly because I prefer apriori conlangs, and partly because in an
> > aposteriori artlang I want to be able to scrutinize it close up &
> for
> > it to still seem real.
>
> Yeah, a lot of the "Indo-European," or basically Latin borrowings
> were
> products of my graduate student years when I was studying historical
> linguistics.  I'm not overly fond of them either.  I just now read
> in _The
> DaVinci Code_ that "rose"... oh, how did the dashing American
> Harvard Prof
> put it?... that the word for "rose" had little variation as it was
> used
> across the Mediterranean and Western worlds.  Now immediately, of
> course, my
> warning signals went up.  Come on, now... of course it's going to be
> the
> same in the romance languages.  But could there be any truth behind
> this?
> What's "rose" in Hebrew?  Greek?  Damn that I don't have a Greek
> dictionary!
i just did some research and i think the kinsi rorotan word for rose will
be _sip-_... if it was borrowed later it could be _syp-_ (ca 550 ad-1400
ad), _symp-_ (ca 1400 ad-1850 ad), or _szymp-_ (ca 1850 ad-present), but
such a borrowing would be historically very unlikely...

> Sally Caves
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