[YG Conlang Archives] > [ceqli group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >


[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: [txeqli] Zoy



Rex May - Baloo wrote:
> 
> Zoy it is!  Now, we need an 'any' prefix, because we're going to have to
> drop the Hindi 'koy,' as being too close to 'zoy.'

How about "gin", from Scottish Gaelic? (Assuming I've read my _Teach
Yourself Gaelic_ correctly.) I don't believe there's a clear
equivalent in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, or Malay, all of
which seem to make do with various combinations of interrogatives and "all".

-- 
Mike Wright
http://www.CoastalFog.net
_____________________________________________________
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."  
-- Charles de Gaulle