I have lived all my life abroad first in Kenya and now in U.K. I have not forgotten my Konkani which I learnt from
speaking to my parents who only knew Konkani with a smattering of Hindi I still speak Swahili after an absence of Thirty years from Kenya, with a passable Hindi, Punjabi an Gujarati and a little Portuguese. You do not forget a language if you spoke it before maybe it becomes a little bit rusty. Some of the Konkani words you post F.N. tend to be in Hindi rather than pukka (asli, genuine) Konkani Like the word Hairann I would say it in Konkani as bejar. Regards Ignatius Fernandes
