Pite Janseke
I'm now trying the find the origin of the Toki Pona heritage word kapesi ...My work hypothesis at the moment is kapesi 'brown, grey' < maybe from Georgian კაფეში /k’apeshi/ 'in the café'
Zev Brook
Zev Brook A case-inflected Georgian word is a big jump, and the semantics are pretty far off as well. What comes to mind for me is Mandarin 咖啡色 (kāfēisè), which means "the colour of coffee". (This Toki Pona word is obsolete, but of current Toki Pona words, Wikipedia quotes 8% of Chinese origin.) I won't hock Sonja by tagging her, but if she sees this post, perhaps she'll clarify.
Pite Janseke
Pite Janseke Thanks alot ! the Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping): gaa3 fe1 sik1 is even closer to kapesi and its tokiponization would end up as kapesi anyway ! - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1%E8%89%B2 (Toki Pona borrows words from Cantonese as wel as Mandarin)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/constructedlanguages/permalink/2236349583114155/
#TokiPona #kapesi #AncientWord #HeritageWord #ArchaicWord #nimi_majuna #咖啡色 #etymon #Chinese #Sonko #Sina #sona #anno2019
I'm now trying the find the origin of the Toki Pona heritage word kapesi ...My work hypothesis at the moment is kapesi 'brown, grey' < maybe from Georgian კაფეში /k’apeshi/ 'in the café'
Zev Brook
Zev Brook A case-inflected Georgian word is a big jump, and the semantics are pretty far off as well. What comes to mind for me is Mandarin 咖啡色 (kāfēisè), which means "the colour of coffee". (This Toki Pona word is obsolete, but of current Toki Pona words, Wikipedia quotes 8% of Chinese origin.) I won't hock Sonja by tagging her, but if she sees this post, perhaps she'll clarify.
Pite Janseke
Pite Janseke Thanks alot ! the Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping): gaa3 fe1 sik1 is even closer to kapesi and its tokiponization would end up as kapesi anyway ! - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1%E8%89%B2 (Toki Pona borrows words from Cantonese as wel as Mandarin)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/constructedlanguages/permalink/2236349583114155/
#TokiPona #kapesi #AncientWord #HeritageWord #ArchaicWord #nimi_majuna #咖啡色 #etymon #Chinese #Sonko #Sina #sona #anno2019