LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.10.04 (03) [E]

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.10.04 (02) [E]

Ron Haan wrote:

> Wolof _mew_ 'milk'
>
> ('Cat' is _moos_.)

Ron, is there a language you DON'T speak??
Forgive the silly question - of course there isn't!! :-)

That gives the name of my translation bureau - Global Moose - a whole new
meaning... I think my cats will want me to drop the final "e" now.

There's also the German "Mieze" for cat; doesn't that have a Lower Saxon
equivalent, too?

Regards,
Gabriele Kahn

> From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.10.03 (04) [E]
>
> Hi George,
>
> the first term that springs to mind would be the Dutch "poes", similar to
> the English "pussycat".
>
> But, speaking about cats: we just had a houseguest from Senegal who told
us
> that the word for "milk" in her native language, Wolof, is "miaou" (sorry,
I
> haven't seen the word written, but that's how it sounds). That certainly
> explains what my three cats keep trying to tell me!!
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriele Kahn
>
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>
> From: R. F. Hahn sassisch at yahoo.com
> Subject: Lexicon
>
> Gabriele wrote:
>
> > But, speaking about cats: we just had a houseguest from Senegal who told
> us
> > that the word for "milk" in her native language, Wolof, is "miaou"
(sorry,
> I
> > haven't seen the word written, but that's how it sounds).
>
> Wolof _mew_ 'milk'
>
> ('Cat' is _moos_.)
>
> Cheers!
> Reinhard/Ron

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From: R. F. Hahn sassisch at yahoo.com
Subject: Lexicon

Gabriele wrote:

> Ron, is there a language you DON'T speak??
> Forgive the silly question - of course there isn't!! :-)

Gabriele, come on now!  Of course I don't *speak* that many!  In my case
it's more a matter of theory, memory, connections and resource availability,
accumulated over more years than I care to think about.  It also so happens
that I have Wolof-speaking Senegalese acquaintances.  (Wolof is spoken in
the Gambia as well.)

> That gives the name of my translation bureau - Global Moose - a whole new
> meaning... I think my cats will want me to drop the final "e" now.

Right.  Unfortunately, Wolof _o_ is pronounced as in _pot_, so _moos_ sounds
like "moss" with vowel doubling or lengthening.

Sorry about that, but cheer up!  Here comes the consolation prize: Wolof
_muus_, pronounced pretty much like Lowlands Saxon _Muus_ 'mouse', also
means 'cat' (dialectal variant), and this word is also used to call cats
(like "Come here, Pussy, Pussy!").

Back to the *European* Lowlands, in Lowlands Saxon (Low German), the basic
word for 'cat' is _Katt_ ~ _kat_ ([kat]).  You can also say _Muuschkatt_
(['mu:Skat]), _Muusch_ ([mu:S]), _Muuskatt_ (['mu:skat]), or _Puus_
([pu:s]), or you can use the nickname _Böönhaas'_ (['bø:nhQ:.z] ~
['b9:nhQ:.z], literally "attic hare").

Kumpelmenten,
Reinhard/Ron

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