It is the mentioned in the article that poskem is derived from possunk.
'Posh' is the root word of possunk.
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Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2017, 4:23
Subject: Re: [GOABOOKCLUB] Of Crioulos and Poskem (Book discussion of Wendell
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I've heard a lot of fanciful interpretations about the origins of words and
names, and we in our part of the world seem to be particularly good at creating
that. For instance, a journalist friend once mentioned that Loutolim and
Cortalim (traced by some to Lavasthal and Kushasthal) were named after the twin
sons of Lord Ram -- Lav and Kush (Lava and Kusa).
Another person I know once mentioned shock and ridicule that the Salcete
village along the Margao-Canacona highway could be called Dramapur, when it
should have been Dharmapur! But why look only at Dharma and not Dhamma, itself
a prominent concept in Buddhism which played its role in Goa too at one time.
Guess we could believe anything we want to.
FN
On 15 November 2017 at 07:04, Wendell Rodricks <[email protected]>
wrote:
As per Konkani writers, like Damodar Mauzo, the word Poskem comes from the
Sanskrit word 'Posh' which means to raise or bring up. It can be used not just
for children but also for animals and flora/fauna.W
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On 14-Nov-2017, at 5:28 PM, 'joao roque literary journal' via The Goa Book Club
<goa-book-club@googlegroups. com> wrote:
The word ‘crioulo’, Melo informs, has a conflicted history, and ‘disparate
usage across geographies.’ Most likely derived from the Latin root ‘creare’ to
‘create’ and the related Portuguese verb ‘criar’ to ‘raise or bring up’, in its
initial usage 'crioulo' referred to black slaves born in the Americas, a word
used to differentiate them from slaves brought over from Africa.
But what did the word mean in Goa? Luis Cabral de Olivier, left this entry for
the word ‘crioulo’ in a dictionary of ‘imperial’ Portuguese terms: ‘The term
crioulo was used in Goa in a sense different to the one it is usually
associated. The word served to designate either an adopted child or a servant
close to the family raised at home from childhood.’ It interesting how over
time 'crioulos' a word linked to slavery and African heritage, and mired in
race miscegenation transformed to mean 'adopted' in the Goan context.
Many a ‘crioulo’ in Goa, did indeed have African heritage. Goans who had
migrated to Africa, at times, returned with indigenous African servants who
might have been in their employ there. Fatima Gracias hypothesises that freed
slaves, after the abolition of slavery within the Portuguese empire, might have
been adopted. Given that the Santa Casa had in their custody abandoned slaves
as well as orphans, it is hardly a stretch to assume that the Santa Casa would
have encouraged people to adopt slaves, no doubt as labour rather than as
children to cherish. And finally, there were African troops stationed in Goa;
anecdotal evidence tells us there were illegitimate children of biracial
Goan-African stock who were adopted by families.
Read full text here:https://selma-carvalho. squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/
2017/10/7/of-crioulos-and- poskim
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