Re: cigarette is always not smoked

The same was true in many European languages when the
first fools brought back that poison. In Spanish and
English they used words meaning "to drink".
In some SE Asian and Native American languages
(Runasimi, so I've been told) --they have one word
they use to mean "to consume" and they use that for
oral consumption or ingestion by humans and animals as
well as fuel by vehicles and machines. When I taught
English to Hmong and Lao students, they always said
"eat" for "drink" and for cars.
But the cigarette < Mayan shuk "to suck", i.e.
something used by suckers, always smokes you in the
end.

--- kishore patnaik <kishorepatnaik09@...>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Will some one explain me the origins of the
> following usages?
>
> In Indian languages, cigarette is not smoked.
>
> In Hindi as well as in Telugu, it is 'drunk'
>
> 'Hindi: cigarette peena mana hai : It is not allowed
> to 'drink ' (peena)
> cigarette
> Tekugu: poga thraguta neramu :It is a crime to
> 'drink'(thragu) cigarette
>
> slang:
>
> Hindi : ek cigarette mar ke atha hun ( I will come
> back after 'hitting'
> (mar) a cigarette)
> Telugu : oka cigarette peeki/laginchi wostanu (i
> will come back after
> plucking/pulling (peeki) or pulling/finish off
> (laginchi) one
> cigarette"
>
>
> Interestingly, Oriya does not follow Hindi.
>
> They say" cigarette khaibu ki ? " will you eat a
> cigarette?
>
> Since these usages must be of recent origin, I am
> sure these practices must
> be explainable without much problem
>
> Kishore patnaik
>

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