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

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "kuhlwolfgang" <kuhlwolfgang@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Hello Qalamites,
>
> I have uploaded the sample words of above languages which I sent
> Marco a while ago to the qalam files.
>
> The Tamil file might be of special interest to Suzanne. What are

your

> guesses ? Most of the Tamil words are commonly known in English.
>
> Regards,
> Wolfgang

Ouch! Okay, here goes.

1. catamaran
2. mango
3. ginger
4. mulligatawney
5. foreign/pariah ??
6. candy
7. ??
8. coulee/coolie ?
9. medley ??
10. patchouli ??
11. ??
12. mattress ??

And I always thought patchouli was an Italian word!! (Not really) I
have more or less given up on the rest.

Suzanne