Re: Phoneme winnowing continues

Re trade marks > generic terms
Joe Fatula wrote:

> > ObConlang: How many conculture-having conlangs do this? :)
>
> Mine don't, as they don't have any brand names.
So far, the only one in Kash is _kambri temboñ_ 'corrugated cardboard',
where kambri is native (actually colloq. < kambirum 'stiff paper=
paperboard, ordinary cardboard'-- the stuff e.g. shoe-boxes are made of),
and temboñ is a Gwr trade name _tæng pong_, the inventor of it, I think.
(My father was in that business for a while, before he retired; I learned
more about cardboard than I needed to know, though of course it was
interesting.)

Soon to come-- the word for 'salve, ointment' will be < the Gwr brand name
of their most popular antiseptic salve (cf. 'aspirin')