Learn one or more Konkani word a day: CHEIR perfume, smell
CHENCHAUNC to smash, to compress, to suffocate, to crush CHENCHLOLO, -I, -EM oppressed, downtrodden, unfortunate CHENCHNIM compression, pressure, overcrowding CHENCHONC to be pressed, to be crushed CHENCHUDD small quantity of coir pressed for igniting, a poor female CHENCHUNC to compress CHEP n squashing CHEP GALUNC to squash, to crush CHEPEM n hat CHEPNNI act of crushing or squashing CHEPONC to be compressed, to yield, to submit CHEPONNEM n. compression [Source: Konkani-English Pocket Dictionary/Concanim-Inglez Dicionar. First published (authored probably by Dacho Furtado) in 1930. Republished in 1991 and 1999 by the Asian Educational Services, Rs 195 in India. Also in a Broadway reprint. Somewhat difficult to purchase currently.] Text is from a 1930 dictionary, and written style may have changed since. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested. Copyleft. Circulated via Goanet [http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/]