[Lexicog] Forest fires and wood fires

[Peter Kirk]

On 05/02/2004 04:28, Patrick Hanks wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk at qaya.org>
> To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Percentage of idioms vs single words
>
>
> > I am surprised not to see in this template a distinction made between
> > accidental, destructive fires and deliberate fires usually for
> warmth or
> > cooking. Quite different words are used for these types of fire in the
> > languages I was working with.
>
> Thanks for that, Peter.  I would like to quote you, with your permission
> of course. (It's an excellent example of the "translation test" for sense
> distinction, don't you think.)  In which languages ...?
>
> - Patrick
>
Yes, you may quote me. For example, Russian пожар (pozhar) is only an
accidental destructive fire; a fire in a hearth is огонь (ogon') and a
bonfire is костёр (kost'or). In Azerbaijani yanğın is an accidental
fire; a deliberate fire is od or atəş; a bonfire is tonqal; the word od
is not used in the monolingual dictionary definition of either of the
other two. Turkish seems to have a similar distinction between yangın
(accidental) and ateş (deliberate); a bonfire is an open air ateş.


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Peter Kirk
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peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
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