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On 3/19/06, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > >>> How's this sound. Take 'peni' from French 'penible' for difficult, > >>> and reverse to 'pine' for easy? .... > For 'easy', I find Hungarian könnyu, which could be Tceqliized as > konyu, or Sanskrit sarala, which seems a syllable too long. Now, we - > could- have 'fsil', but that's a little too consonant-clustery even > for me. Is the /uj/ in "kuyno" a permitted diphthong in Tceqli, though? > I found Korean 'swiun', but I'm not sure how to pronounce it, and it > may be a little too complex phonetically in any case. Reversed as "snuiw" if I guess right... yeah, if the base word isn't too hairy, the reversal certainly is. Greek has /xalepOn/, which might be truncated to "hal" -> "hla"? No, bad idea. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry