[YG Conlang Archives] > [romconlang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 5/10/11, Adam Walker <carraxan@hidden.email> wrote: > > > But after a glance at Wikipedia, I > > see that archaeological evedence for > > couscous eating in North Africa goes back to the 9th > > century at least, so > > perhaps I should have derived the C-an term from the Berber > > seksu which would have given me *sexu /'se.SU/. Ah well. > > Well, no reason why you can't use seksu for something else -- why not > a variety of cuscus? Or a cuscus dish? Or something to do with cuscus > production / cooking? > > Loucarian is full of such doublets and triplets. > > Padraic > > > Well, I suppose I could...if I find a reason for it. Actually, I was thinking that *cuscusu *really should be *cuscu* which would be a back formation after *cuscus* is analyzed as a plural after all, there shore is a heapin lot of them thar cuscus in a bowl of the stuff, and who ever heard of eatin jess one cuscu? Adam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]