Modern terminology in Poswa and Pabappa
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Poswa and Pabappa are adept at coining new words, although Pabappa takes many loans from Poswa. Words for which no Pabappa entry is given in this table 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 | pocket voice | ||||
| chemical (warfare) | bumpša | punsasis | animal queen | Pabappa version adds sis "bomb" | ||
| chemical (formula, recipe) | fompaevabašša | pompanibasa | substance that breaks down into two others | |||
| cosmetic shampoo | puppsafavem | hairstyle soap | ||||
| sunglasses | ||||||
| shampoo (in general) | safavem | beauty soap; hair soap | one word for beauty also means "hair of the head" | |||
| sunblock, sunscreen | ||||||
| suntanning lotion | ||||||
| typewriter | ||||||
| calculator | pwurpavwab | math machine | ||||
| calculator | pwurpožem | math machine | ||||
| calculator | pwuvbwem | math machine | assumes požem ---> bwem in Poswa, which causes r ---> v |
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| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| calculator | ||||||
| computer | pwurpavwab pubitom | calculator with pictures on it | ||||
| computer | pwurpavwab baviam | calculator with pictures on it | ||||
| computer | pubapwurpavwab | calculator of drawings | ||||
| computer | pafapwurpavwab | calculator of maps | ||||
| computer | wembvapwurpavwab | calculator of maps | ||||
| computer | ||||||
| computer | ||||||
| pill (medicine) | ||||||
| pharmacy | ||||||
