On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25-May-12 11:31 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: >> Actually I don't know a single word in any Indian language -- >> excluding those that have been appropriated in to English -- other >> than, of course, Cherokee, Sioux, Apache, Wampanoag, Hopi, Navaho, >> Iroquois, etc -- so this whole thread is entirely fascinating, but >> in a totally abstract sense. >> >> jrs >> >> >> Moccasin? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moccasin >> >> Totem? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem > > Suresh already pointed out that John said "excluding those that have > been appropriated in to English", but your parse error is rather deeper > than that - he actually claims to KNOW words in "Cherokee, Sioux, > Apache, Wampanoag, Hopi, Navaho, Iroquois, etc" - so your examples are > erroneous.
And from the context, he meant words from subcontinental languages that have been added to English like: - chit - bungalow - shampoo - teak and so on. -- b
