Borrowed words
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
Wait!! Let me it this one right. So basically all of you are saying names days of week came from French?
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
The word Chan itself existed long before the French colonization.Username Taken wrote:^^ Plenty of people called Chan and Sok.
You could try looking towards the planets.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
Sok means living in peace...if the word is borrowed in French too, then I am confused.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
- Bitte_Kein_Lexus
- Expatriate
- Posts: 4421
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 7:32 pm
- Reputation: 1325
Re: Borrowed words
flying chicken wrote:Wait!! Let me it this one right. So basically all of you are saying names days of week came from French?
Ex Bitteeinbit/LexusSchmexus
- Bitte_Kein_Lexus
- Expatriate
- Posts: 4421
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 7:32 pm
- Reputation: 1325
Re: Borrowed words
We're just saying some given names come from French:
Lundy is a Khmerization of Lundi (which means Monday in French). Marady (mardi, Tuesday), Jeudy (Jeudi/Thursday), Diamong/Diamond (diamant=diamond) and so on... I'm pretty sure I also recall a few French adjectives being used as names. It's the same as naming your kid Chan or Makara, but using the French word instead because it sounds special/a bit different.
I also said a lot of words were borrowed from French:
tou-ne-vii=tournevis (screw driver), tu-yo-(teuk)=tuyau (pipe) etc.
Lundy is a Khmerization of Lundi (which means Monday in French). Marady (mardi, Tuesday), Jeudy (Jeudi/Thursday), Diamong/Diamond (diamant=diamond) and so on... I'm pretty sure I also recall a few French adjectives being used as names. It's the same as naming your kid Chan or Makara, but using the French word instead because it sounds special/a bit different.
I also said a lot of words were borrowed from French:
tou-ne-vii=tournevis (screw driver), tu-yo-(teuk)=tuyau (pipe) etc.
Last edited by Bitte_Kein_Lexus on Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Ex Bitteeinbit/LexusSchmexus
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
Thanks for the boring JPEG image. Are you seriously saying that days of the week came from the French word. Their colonization were just a few centuries, this aint no Vietnamese where characters are used. Khmer civilization exist long before the Angkor period, so what names day of the week did they use then?
Last edited by flying chicken on Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
- Bitte_Kein_Lexus
- Expatriate
- Posts: 4421
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 7:32 pm
- Reputation: 1325
Re: Borrowed words
See above. Jesus are you that dense? We're not saying Chan, ongkieh etc are French words... Did you fail second grade or something?
We're just saying some given names come from French:
Lundy is a Khmerization of Lundi (which means Monday in French). Marady (mardi, Tuesday), Jeudy (Jeudi/Thursday), Diamong/Diamond (diamant=diamond) and so on... I'm pretty sure I also recall a few French adjectives being used as names. It's the same as naming your kid Chan or Makara, but using the French word instead because it sounds special/a bit different.
I also said a lot of words were borrowed from French:
tou-ne-vii=tournevis (screw driver), tu-yo-(teuk)=tuyau (pipe) etc.
Ex Bitteeinbit/LexusSchmexus
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
And did you even read my final question above?.......Before the colonization.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
-
- Expatriate
- Posts: 1559
- Joined: Sat May 17, 2014 5:51 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: Borrowed words
My older sister's names Longdi follows by Rithy and Sophak. By your impeccable logic those names come from France too.Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:See above. Jesus are you that dense? We're not saying Chan, ongkieh etc are French words... Did you fail second grade or something?
We're just saying some given names come from French:
Lundy is a Khmerization of Lundi (which means Monday in French). Marady (mardi, Tuesday), Jeudy (Jeudi/Thursday), Diamong/Diamond (diamant=diamond) and so on... I'm pretty sure I also recall a few French adjectives being used as names. It's the same as naming your kid Chan or Makara, but using the French word instead because it sounds special/a bit different.
I also said a lot of words were borrowed from French:
tou-ne-vii=tournevis (screw driver), tu-yo-(teuk)=tuyau (pipe) etc.
EVERYONE BOW DOWN AND PAY EXTREME HOMAGE TO HIS MAJESTIES flying chicken©
- Bitte_Kein_Lexus
- Expatriate
- Posts: 4421
- Joined: Sun May 18, 2014 7:32 pm
- Reputation: 1325
Re: Borrowed words
I saw it, but:flying chicken wrote:And did you even read my final question above?.......Before the colonization.
1. I'm not a Khmer language scholar. The language was likely quite different from modern Khmer.
2. While certainly interesting to know, I failed to see the relevance of that question with the issue at hand (your confusion about some words having French origins).
I don't think it's my logic that has a problem, but your comprehension skills... Where did you see myself of Joon say that ALL khmer given names come from French?! That's obviously ridiculous. Rithy and Sopheak certainly don't have French origins (they even have meanings in Khmer).flying chicken wrote:My older sister's names Longdi follows by Rithy and Sophak. By your impeccable logic those names come from France too.Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:See above. Jesus are you that dense? We're not saying Chan, ongkieh etc are French words... Did you fail second grade or something?
We're just saying some given names come from French:
Lundy is a Khmerization of Lundi (which means Monday in French). Marady (mardi, Tuesday), Jeudy (Jeudi/Thursday), Diamong/Diamond (diamant=diamond) and so on... I'm pretty sure I also recall a few French adjectives being used as names. It's the same as naming your kid Chan or Makara, but using the French word instead because it sounds special/a bit different.
I also said a lot of words were borrowed from French:
tou-ne-vii=tournevis (screw driver), tu-yo-(teuk)=tuyau (pipe) etc.
What we said is that SOME names have French origins. Ask anyone called Diamond what their name means and they'll tell you it's French for diamond. So their parents could have given them the traditional Khmer name Pich, but instead chose Diamond/g because they like the ring it has or whatever. That's all... Not sure why you're talking about pre-colonial days of the week and assuming all given names are French or something...
Last edited by Bitte_Kein_Lexus on Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:02 pm, edited 3 times in total.
Ex Bitteeinbit/LexusSchmexus
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 1 Replies
- 1330 Views
-
Last post by ItWasntMe
-
- 3 Replies
- 1267 Views
-
Last post by Alex
-
- 1 Replies
- 1320 Views
-
Last post by CEOCambodiaNews
-
- 3 Replies
- 1595 Views
-
Last post by CEOCambodiaNews
-
- 1 Replies
- 1778 Views
-
Last post by Khmerican
-
- 6 Replies
- 1937 Views
-
Last post by one_dolla
-
- 3 Replies
- 2785 Views
-
Last post by Patcan
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Majestic-12 [Bot] and 407 guests