Lakota word for "bubble" ?
shokooh Ingham
shokoohbanou at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 15 14:26:27 UTC 2005
This is interesting. It seems to be another case of
Lakota preferring verbs to nouns. In my pouring over
Lakota texts, I don't think I ever saw a word
equivalent to 'a bubble', but lots of words meaning
'to bubble, foam' like those mentioned by Alfred
below. I would be grateful if any Lakota knows the
old or new way to say 'I saw a bubble floating in the
air'. It would solve a problem. Other words for foam
are of course pig^a and thag^a or kathag^a. Also I
remembber in the bible the storiy of the sick man by
the pool at Gethsemene (if I've got the location
right) when the word nas^kans^kan 'to move' was used
for the water bubbling up
Bruce
-- "Alfred W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> wrote:
> > I have been asked to find the ihunk ihanni or
> "the old way," of saying
> "bubble" in Lakota.
>
> The only way I have seen it translated is anahlohlo.
> <<
>
>
> From your sample (anahlohlo, [ana'h^loh^lo]), I
> assume that you mean
> the verb "to bubble (up)". With this sense I also
> found:
> anapsapsa [ana'ps^aps^a] - Buechel: boil up, come
> up, as bubbles on the
> water (cf. psa [ps^a] - to sneeze, psapsa s'e -
> appearing disorderly),
> apablublu [apa'blublu] - to bubble up with many
> bubbles (cf. apablu - to
> crush to powder on anything, to belch, to bubble up,
> as air from the
> water; anablu - to kick dust or dirt on).
> anahlohlo - bubble up, as in boiling (cf. anahloka -
> to wear a hole(!)
> in, as in a moccasin, on smth.; hlohloka
> [h^loh^o'ka] - full of
> holes(!); hlokA - hollow, a hollow; hlogeca
> [h^loge'ca] - poor, thin, as
> a sick man, hollow, as a tree).
> So it seems to me that the ideas behind might be
> 'hole/hollow' (hlo),
> 'dust/dirt' i.e. little pieces (blu) and '(burst to)
> sneeze' (psa).
>
> There's also: tapsiza [txapsi'za] or tapsipsiza - to
> bubble up, come up,
> as bubbles on water; also: tapsija [txapsi'z^a] or
> anatapsiza
> [ana'txapsiz^a]; cf. psica [psi'ca] - jumping(!),
> psicala - flea,
> psipsicala [psipsi'cala] - grasshopper, psipsicala
> [psi'psicala] - the
> jumping mouse etc.
> So, in this case the meaning seems quite evident as
> also in Bavarian
> slang, soda pop is sometimes called 'hupfats Wossa'
> - 'hüpfendes Wasser'
> in High German -, which literally is 'jumping water'
> ;-)
>
> I'm ignorant whether or not there are still older
> ways in Lakota to give
> the idea of 'bubble'.
> Alfred
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