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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>In colloquial Malay (in Malaysia at least), 'babi nangui' is
a 'wild boar'. It is also be used metaphorically as a derogatory
term. I am not sure where 'nangui' comes from though.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Sarah</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>Sarah Lee<BR>Dept of Linguistics<BR>Rice University<BR>Houston
Texas<BR></DIV>
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<A title=anderbeck@gmail.com href="mailto:anderbeck@gmail.com">Karl &
Kristen Anderbeck</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=an-lang@anu.edu.au
href="mailto:an-lang@anu.edu.au">an-lang@anu.edu.au</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [An-lang] nanguy 'pig' in
Akit</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I’m taking a look at a book on the (Malayic) Akit speech
variety (Rupat Island, Riau Coast, Sumatra, Indonesia). Although it is a
fairly straightforward Malay variety, not too weird lexically, phonologically
or morphologically, one word really threw me: <I>nanguy</I> ‘pig’. PMP
*<I>nanguy</I> ‘swim’ comes immediately to mind (cf. also PMP *<I>babuy</I>
‘pig’). Now Malayic innovated all PMP -*<I>uy</I> diphthongs to
<I>i</I>, e.g. <I>babi</I> ‘pig’, etc. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I do not see any phonological innovations in Akit which
could have produced such a diphthong, but neither can I imagine a semantic
path from a possibly pre-Malayic, substratal <I>nanguy</I> ‘swim’ to
‘pig’. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>All that comes to me is Flo in the 70’s sitcom Mel, saying,
“When pigs fly!”<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Karl Anderbeck<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>National University of Malaysia <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Reference: <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Gentium; COLOR: black">Umar, Said Mahmud, T. Nontel, Pang
Cik, Burhan Yunus. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Gentium; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">1991. <I>Struktur
Bahasa Akit</I>. Jakarta: Pusat Bahasa. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Gentium; COLOR: black"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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