origin of takuri=kettle, salapi=money, gunting=scissors

[Jensen, John T]

The following could as easily represent borrowings into Yapese from the west (Philippines?), but they are fascinatingly similar:

dagur 'empty coconut shell used as a container'
salpiy 'money'

Note that salpiy could be related to:

salp- 'welfare' (obligatorily possessed - e.g. salpeeg 'my welfare'

Don't know if this is of interest, but both words struck me.  As I said, my assumption, at least for salpiy, is that it is a borrowing.  I had always assumed dagur to be a native word, but if it is borrowed, it could be from Palauan (and I don't know a Palauan source) - for the matter of that, salpiy could be from Palau which in its turn could have borrowed from the west.


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From: an-lang-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:an-lang-bounces at anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Piers Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012 10:49 a.m.
To: an-lang at anu.edu.au
Subject: [An-lang] origin of takuri=kettle, salapi=money, gunting=scissors

Hello again An-langers,
Many thanks for your useful responses so far on payung ('umbrella').

Before I summarise them for the group I have another related question. I'm looking at Visayan words for post-contact products that don't appear to be loaned from contact languages. Specifically, I'm interested in the lexifying strategies brought to the task, eg, metaphor, metonym, description etc.

At the moment I'm trying to figure out the origins of these three Cebuano-Visayan words, which I'm assuming are post-contact products:

takuri ('kettle')
salapi ('money')
gunting ('scissors')

Looking forward to your responses,

Piers


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Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific
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