tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 29 13:09:08 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries
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<font face="Courier New">vuQ...De'vamvaD qatlho'. <br id="FontBreak"></font><br><font face="Courier New">'ach DaH Sepvetlh pong 'oH nu'SIylan'e' 'ej vIparHa'. Sachmo' tlhIngan Hol jIQuch. De' jengva'vam 'oHlaw' bI'reS'e'. jISeyqu'.</font><BR><font face="Courier New"></font> <BR><font face="Courier New"> <BR><br>-- jhb<br></font><br> <BR><div>> From: [email protected]<br>> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:35:40 +0200<br>> To: [email protected]<br>> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Countries<br>> <br>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 19:06, Josh Badgley <[email protected]> wrote:<br>> > The New Zealand thing throws me not because they didn't use the Maori name,<br>> > but because "New" does not translate to "nu"...I get the "SIylan" part<br>> > though..<br>> <br>> In Tongan, it's Nu‘u Sila (Nu'u Sila); in Niuean, it's Niu Silani.<br>> <br>> Both those Polynesian languages (many of whose speakers live in NZ)<br>> transcribed, rather than translated, the "New" bit.<br>> <br>> Struck me as odd when I learned about that, but that's the way it is. *shrug*<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Philip<br>> -- <br>> Philip Newton <[email protected]><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br>> [email protected]<br>> http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol<br></div> </div></body>
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