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size=2><SPAN class=890052809-25062005></SPAN>T<SPAN
class=890052809-25062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>hanks,
John,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>"Whimper" makes
sense to me as an origin. Why would someone whimper in Amele
asking</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>for some water?
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face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>As far as quasi
synonyms go, English seems creative. I heard or read: quiche eater, namby
pamby, </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>big girl's
blouse, softie, milquetoast, crybaby. These have, of course, different
connotations and</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
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class=890052809-25062005>applications/targets. German has literally hundreds
in this semantic domain. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>Modern-day
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>favorites are "Warmduscher" (=
warm-shower taker; functionallly equivalent
translation:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>"cold-shower
coward") and "Weichei" (= soft-boiled egg).</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3><SPAN class=890052809-25062005>Fritz
Goerling</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">The NODE concurs that the origin of "wimp"
is unknown, but perhaps it is from "whimper".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">"wet", "weed", "weakling", "wuss",
(some phonosemantics going on here) "sissy", "chicken" are some
synonyms.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">We have the "whimperative" mood in Amele
(Papuan) expressed by the sentence final postposition =mo. E.g. "wa itaga=mo"
'please give me some water' (usually expressed in a whimpering
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John Roberts</FONT></DIV>
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