I have personally witnessed people addressing the "Cristao Bamonn
bhattkarni" (Christian Brahmin landladies) using the suffix 're' (pronounced
'ray',) but that was in the 1950's; that generation is dead and gone now.
In Goa, girls are addressed with a suffix "gho" and elderly women as "ghe.
Young boys and men are addressed with a suffix "re" and elderly men as
"gha."
When speaking to a tenant or a common man, Christian Brahmin landladies then
avoided the use of suffix "re" because it was meant for them. Similarly,
they avoided addressing elderly women as "ghe" - they addressed all women as
"gho!"
In Goa, children address their parents as "maim ghe" and "pai gha" out of
respect, but I have come across children who address their parents as "maim
gho" and "pai re" e.g, "maim gho, hanv khellonk voitam;" (mother, I am going
to play;) "dedlea, ami Mapxeam iea mure?" (daddy, shall we go Mapusa?)
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
From : luis rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To : [email protected]
Sent : Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:38:02 AM
To : [email protected]
Subject : [Goanet]RE: Suffix
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Dear Cecil,
I have never heard in Goa a women being referred with
a suffix "re" Brahamin or whatsoever she may be.
With regards to an elderly woman being referred with
suffix "ge" I agree, as we still call Mai-ge ( For
mother) or Aunty-ge ( for Aunts)
If you say so, I too will start my hunt to see those
women ( Brahamin) being referred as " re"
Cheers!!!
Luis Rodrigues
Chimbel/ Dubai
Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona wrote:
Dear Luis,
Interestingly a few months back a rather pro-casteist
Cyber Goan wrote
to
me rather adamantly that all Brahmin women, of
whatever age, have to be
referred to as 're' (pronounced 'ray') and not 'go'
(to an equal or
younger
woman) or 'ge' (pronounced 'gay' - to an elderly
woman) as one would do
in
normal Konkani for a female.
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