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Re: Adding New Words

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, May 29, 2006, 15:34
Hi!

Dan Sulani writes:
>... > For example, |telefon|. The "root" is considered to be > t-l-f-n and the verb is formed like other verbs: > |letalfen| = to telephone someone, |tilfanti| = I phoned, and so on. >...
That's quite cool! Reminds me of 'video' <-> 'kideo' in Suahili, were 'vi-' of the borrowed word is reinterpreted to be a class prefix. **Henrik