[Ads-l] "hafu"

W Brewer brewerwa at GMAIL.COM
Sun May 31 07:36:37 UTC 2015


<hapa> (half...):  Just a WAG, but I seem to recall something like Hawaiian
had no fricatives (???), so that loanwords were assimilated without them.
As in <Merry Christmas> --> Mele Kalikimaka. I can imagine <half a
(dollar)> becoming <hapa>.

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