nairi Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 It also means something else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Thank you Nairi! Not for the hayhoyanq But for reminding me. While writing my long piece today that word was one of the many floating around in my head as a good example of nasal-bilabial succession. It also reminded me that sometimes we use "anban anasun!!" as a form of hayhoyanq, insult. While on the surface it is meant to mean "mindless beast" it is in fact a repetition of the same word as literally they both mean virtually the same; anban=wordless and anasun=speechless. Of course anban is also used to mean "anbanavor"=illogical, without logic, inane. style_images/master/snapback.png could also mean '"tsuyl" anasun" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted November 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 It also means something else style_images/master/snapback.png I think Nairi has very naughty "thing" in mind. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 She does indeed Fascinating. Just a quick look in my dictionary. The only words that begin with banb, are banbarak and banber. There are no words beginning with banm or banp (unaspirated)... Only banpachel (with aspirated p' - the last p in the alphabet) and it tells me to see bampachel... Actually there aren't many words beginning with bam- either. Maybe the an- prefix is like the un- in English. It never changes, at least in spelling. Btw, there are no words beginning with inb, inm, inp or inp' or imb (except imbir), imm, imp' either. I only found a few with imp, and they're all loan words, like imperializm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 (edited) Btw, duh, light-bulb moment. Notice how /a/ in an- and /u/ un- almost sound the same? They're both pronounced mid-back in the mouth. /i/ is pronounced at the front (as I mentioned in another thread earlier) and the English /i/ in imp- is pronounced mid-front. How's that for an explanation? Edited November 6, 2004 by nairi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kakachik77 Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Philologist is also lezvaban Or lezvaget. style_images/master/snapback.png lezvaban is also linguist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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