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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Hannelore Hinz"><span name="Mike Morgan">Mike Morgan</span> <span><<a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a>></span> </span></font></font></span></div>
<font color="#000000"></font><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span> Re: LL-L "Etymology" 2013.08.16 (01) [DE-NDS</span></font></font></span></div>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Anybody out there know if there is possible that Maori<strong> reka</strong> 'tasty, sweet, juicy, yummy' comes from Dutch (or Afrikaans) lekker (or related)?<br></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I ran across it (reka) yesterday while working on Maori and was struck by its "fit" to Dutch/Afrikaans... and that meaning doesn't appear to be in the Austronesian Languages Database (</font><a href="http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://language.psy.auckland.</font><font color="#0066cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ac.nz/austronesian</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">), and <strong>reka</strong> certainly is NOT related to the Hawai'ian word <b>'ono</b> tasty/delicious'.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#888888" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">mwm || *U*C> || mike || माईक || мика || マイク (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>
sign language linguist / linguistic typologist<br>academic adviser, Nepal Sign Language Training and Research<br> NDFN, Kathmandu, Nepal</font></div></font></span><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div>
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