Towees

[Mike Cleven]

"janilta at j.email.ne.jp" wrote:
>
> Lisa,
>
> My (excellent) 'lexique du tahitien contemporain' by Yves Lemaitre, has
> indeed :
> 'to'i : hache; autrefois herminette'
> (ie axe, formerly adze).
> And my 'illustrated Hawaiian dictionary' also has :
> 'axe : ko'i (also means adze)'.

there seems to be a convention concerning the use of 'w' to represent a
glottal stop, or at least an approximation of it; lowullo/lo'lo, for
another example; there's many others in the Jargon IIRC.......so
to'i=>towee is another example of this convention, wake nah?

MC