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Revision as of 06:17, 8 July 2016
Poswa and Pabappa are adept at coining new words, although Pabappa takes many loans from Poswa. Pabappa words in italics denote words recently loaned from Poswa. Words for which no Pabappa entry is given in this table also use the Poswa word, adapted to Pabappa's sound system.
Examples of coined words for modern technology
| English | Poswa | Pabappa | Shared etymology |
Other notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cellphone | pampappep | pampappep | pocket voice | electronics | ||
| chemical (warfare) | bumpša | punsasis | animal queen | Pabappa version adds sis "bomb" | weapons | |
| chemical (formula, recipe) | fompaevabašša | pompanibasa | substance that breaks down into two others | chemistry | ||
| cosmetic shampoo | puppsafamiši | hairstyle liquid soap | cosmetics/fashion | |||
| sunglasses | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| shampoo (in general) | safamiši | apublip | beauty (liquid) soap; hair (liquid) soap | one word for beauty also means "hair of the head" | cosmetics/fashion | |
| sunblock, sunscreen | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| suntanning lotion | cosmetics/fashion | |||||
| clock (in general) | ||||||
| wristwatch | ||||||
| typewriter | ||||||
| calculator | pwurpavwab | purpawab | math machine | |||
| calculator | pwurpožem | purpodem | math machine | |||
| calculator | pwuvbwem | pubbuem | math machine | assumes požem ---> bwem in Poswa, which causes r ---> v |
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| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| gun (in general) | baepimpwembwa | ulpassumpu | tube aiming bullets | an SOV compound | weapons | |
| cannon | baeptwappwembwa | ulpussumpu | tube aiming bombs | [1] | an SOV compound | weapons |
| computer | pwurpavwab pubitom | purpawab pubitom | calculator with pictures on it | |||
| computer | pwurpavwab baviam | purpawab babiam | calculator with pictures on it | |||
| computer | pubapwurpavwab | puba purpawab | calculator of drawings | |||
| computer | pafapwurpavwab | papa purpawab | calculator of maps | |||
| computer | wembvapwurpavwab | wemba purpawab | calculator of maps | |||
| computer | ||||||
| computer | ||||||
| pill (medicine) | ||||||
| pharmacy | ||||||
Notes
- ↑ Pabappa assumes that the word for bomb was pus, rather than having a separate existence as a passive noun, which would have caused it to change to sis
