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#40409 - 09/05/01 10:41 PM
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409
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#40410 - 09/06/01 01:07 AM Re: Polynesian languages
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	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 Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#40411 - 09/06/01 05:43 AM Latin diphthongs
NicholasW enthusiast Registered: 12/18/00 Posts: 393 Loc: London	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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#40412 - 09/06/01 04:54 PM Re: Polynesian languages
Jazzoctopus old hand Registered: 07/03/00 Posts: 1094 Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...	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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#40413 - 09/06/01 10:34 PM Re: Polynesian languages
wordcrazy enthusiast Registered: 01/26/01 Posts: 275	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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#40414 - 09/07/01 01:00 AM Re: Polynesian languages
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Sorry, Jazzo, what are cooties? Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#40415 - 09/07/01 01:10 AM Re: Polynesian languages
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Indonesian: pandanus pandan sugarcane tebu Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#40416 - 09/07/01 08:59 AM Re: Polynesian languages
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	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". _________________________ my other obsession
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#40417 - 09/07/01 03:37 PM Re: Polynesian languages
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	>cooties. Could they possibly be related? My dictionary says perhaps. _________________________ TEd
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#40418 - 09/10/01 07:43 AM Re: Cootie
rodward addict Registered: 02/13/01 Posts: 609 Loc: Portsmouth, United Kingdom	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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