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And the Indonesian equivalents:
two - rua -- dua four - wha -- empat five - rima -- lima six - ono -- enam eye - mata, kanohi -- mata ear - taringa -- telinga road - huarahi -- jalan stone - poohatu,koohatu or whatu -- batu canoe - waka -- prahu headlice -kutu -- kutu
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that Latin has pure vowels, not dipthongs like English
What this meant is that the long E and O are pure vowels [e:] and [o:], not diphthongs [ei] and [ou] as they are in English.
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headlice -kutu -- kutu
My brother is in the room with me and when I said this word out loud he thought I mean cooties. Could they possibly be related?
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Thank you MaxQ and Bingley for the Maaori and the Indonesian equivalents. I am adding another equivalent, (in blue). It is from the main dialect spoken in the mid-southern group of Philippine islands called the Visayas. I was born in one of these islands so it is my mother tongue.
two ---rua -- dua--duha four - wha -- empat--apat five - rima -- lima--lima six - ono -- enam----anum eye - mata, kanohi -- mata----mata ear - taringa -- telinga----talinga road - huarahi -- jalan----dalan stone - poohatu,koohatu or whatu ----batu----batu canoe - waka -- prahu----paraw headlice -kutu -- kutu----kutu pandanus-------------------pandan sugarcane------------------tubo
Thank you, Bingley, for the website on Austronesian languages, among others.
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Sorry, Jazzo, what are cooties?
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Indonesian: pandanus pandan sugarcane tebu
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cooties are american slang for head lice. there is(or was?) even a kids game called cooties.. as you went around the board, you "earned" or "lost" body parts. the winner of the game was the first to amass and assemble a red plastic cootie bug..
the ultimate slur in 2nd grade is "You have cootie bugs".
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>cooties. Could they possibly be related?
My dictionary says perhaps.
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there is(or was?) even a kids game called cooties.. as you went around the board, you "earned" or "lost" body parts. the winner of the game was the first to amass and assemble a red plastic cootie bug.. In UK there used to be "Beetle Drives" where one assembled (or more often drew) bettles from parts assigned by throwing a die. If I remember correctly, 6 for the body to start so you could stick the rest on, 1 for a leg etc. First to finish won and moved on round the various tables. Popular in parish functions and the like for a while. I think we may still have a set of the plastic beetle home version somewhere!
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