Re: [OT?] Seeking for sample words in Yi, Cree, Lao, Sinhala, Tam i

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> > Sorry Marco, no spaghetti, but I have posted 16 words that sound
> > like their English equivalents.
>
> Thank you very much, Suzanne.
>
> > At least a few should match Italian
> > well. These words include foods, English loanwords for modern

items,

> > religions, religious characters, and countries. Have fun figuring
> > out what is what. I am waiting for your guesses! (It is in

Unicode.)

>
> OK, time for laughing:

Actually, excellent work, Marco, you pass with flying colours!!!

>
> - aara񳨺 "orange"? (The color or the fruit?) -yes, the fruit
>
> - kaapi: could it be "coffee"? -yes
>
> - rootti: no clue... Some kind of food? -roti, flatbread
>
> - kri: "curry"? -yes
>
> - naan: is this "nun"!? -naan bread
>
> - tisko: "disco(theque)"? -yes
>
> - sheelpoon: no clue... Sounds English but... -it is an English

word but quite popular, try again

>
> - kaara: could it be "car"? -yes
>
> - raamaa: Rahma, the god? -yes
>
> - pautta: I'll be silly: is this (Harry) Potter!? -no, silly!
>
> - ashooka: emperor Ashoka? -yes
>
> - intu: Hindu? -yes
>
> - muslim: Muslim. -yes
>
> - kanataa: Canada. -yes
>
> - intiyaa: "India"!? Wouldn't it be something like "Bharat" in

Tamil?

-yes, but I have seen this transliteration more than one place

>
> - amerikka: America. -yes
>
> Well, the last one is more or less the only one about which I'm

quite sure

> (I hope it won't turn out that "Amerikka" is the Tamil for "I am

from planet

> Hearth and I come in peace, you bloody extraterrestial

barbarians.").

No, I found this in the ANSII transliteration, no political
connection and they probably have another word for America anyway - I
don't know.

So 12 out of 16. Not bad. We eat as much East Indian food here as we
do spaggheti so naan and roti are common words in Vancouver. I'll let
you work on the other 2 for a bit.

Suzanne

>
> OK, when you've finished rolling on the floor laughing, could you

please

> give me the actual translations?
>
> --
> Marco