-dar

[Beth Simon]

well, this is, or may be, working on more than one level here.

-dar, in the Urdu - Hindi language spectrum, is a "one who"
noun-forming suffix. So, for instance, dukan + dar is a shop/small
business + one who, i.e., a shopkeeper, store owner or manager (or the
one running the place/the cash register).

Zamindar -- (zamin = land + dar) = the landlord, the land owner, the
boss

So, (I'm probably way out in the unfortunate Cubs left field but..)
Hindu + dar might be trying to work in a South Asian echo.

>> zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU 10/4/2004 1:16:12 PM >>>
On Oct 4, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Damien Hall wrote, about "Hindu-dar":

> ...Has anyone else come across similar coinages?

just sticking to the exciting world of sexualities, i've heard
"dykedar" and "straightdar", and there's a fair number of google hits
on these.  some hits on "fagdar", "queerdar", and "homodar" as well.
no "sissydar" (did you mean "sissy bar"?, google asks), presumably
because sissies are so, y'know, obvious.

is -dar ready for the next edition of quinion's Ologies and Isms, do
youy think?

arnold


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