Tahlklie and Polaklie

[Mike Cleven]

"David D. Robertson" wrote:
>
> If either of these has a Polynesian cognate, that old "Oceanic" hypothesis
> may, um, hold water.  (Who was it, Turney-High perhaps, who elaborated his
> fringe theory about this?  I seem to recall the book having been reprinted
> by Ye Galleon Press.)
>
> Howsoever, the forms in question are more like /t7anLki/ and /pulakli/.
> For exact citation forms, please ask someone else, as I'm busy moving into
> a new house today, fighting a cold, and preparing for a long business
> trip.  My point is, these two words don't share much in the way of
> morphology.  There's no recording of anything like /t7anLkli/ that I'm
> aware of.

Maybe it's my own typo, then; I'm a pretty accurate typist normally;
must have been during my original transcription of Gibbs and it just
stayed there, i.e. the 'klie' ending; I can see reversing letters but
normally I don't do it and _double_ them.  Sorry to whip up over
nothing.
--
Mike Cleven
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