From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 02:39:56 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Mills" <romilly@e...>
wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:05:50 -0000
> From: "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...>
>
> You wrote:
> >Here are the guanche words whose meaning I don't >quite understand,
> >due to the Spanish, I would appreciate help.
>
> Have you checked these against a Really Big Spanish dictionary?
What's the
> time-period involved-- there may be archaic usages. The original
Span.
> glosses might help...
> I can't help with many, but a few ideas.....
>
> >Aguamames [agwamames] > abamam(ex) [abamam] f. teething ring by
root
> of fern with butter that occurred to the children
>
> Sounds like a reasonable sort of teething ring; is _aguamames_
possibly a
> borrowing from Span.?
>
> >Amolán [amolan] > amauran(ex) [amoran] mantequilla
>
> Butter (?)
>
> >Añepa [aJepa] > anhef(ax) [aJef] lance of tea very worked that
preceded to
> the king
>
> "lanza de té? muy labrado que precedió al rey"
> Sounds like a ceremonial ornate "lance" that was carried in front
of the
> king (cf. the mace in UK Parliament processions, and in some
University
> ceremonies). No idea what "tea" (té?) could refer to-- a native
wood?
>
> >[t.aserke:n] > /chaxorquen(ex)/ [t_SaS@rken(Es)] f. honey of mocán
> > [joja] > iaui [joja] f. the fruit of mocán
>
> mocán probably a native plant? Is it a Guanche word?
>
> >[girre] > jir(ex) [d_Zir] f. quebrantahuesos (?), the bird
>
> "bone(hueso)-crusher/breaker(quebrantar)"
>
> >[wirmas] > huirm(ax) [wirm] booties or averages (?)
>
> Is this "medias"? Most likely stockings, maybe booties.
>
> >[wesco] > huecxaun(ex) [wekSon] dried roots of malva which have
absorbed
> milk
> >[Swesto] > xuechaun [Swet_Son] f. raiz (?) of malva
>
> Malva IIRC is the Latin name for the _mallow_ plant. Looks like -
xaun [Son]
> might be the corresponding part-- wek+Son, Swet+Son. Does Guanche
compound
> head-last?
>
> >[tabite] > tabyt(ex) [tab1t] jarro (?) small
>
> jarro = jar, vase
>
> >[SaSo] > xaxaun [SaSon] f. momia (?)
> Mummy????
>
> Hope this helps.
I'm headed to the public library today (it's next to the video store)
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