Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] KONKANI: Iddi, iecbat, kottarli, nac catro, opman, paunleo, popso

2015-02-20 Thread Melvyn Rodrigues
In mangalorean christian dialect iddi becomes biddi IECBAT is a new wore, We have a word Jinzvar or upaas. Kottarli -we too have the same word. nak catro - we have lost this word now. Though i used to hear during my childhood. Opman - we too have the same word We dont have the word POPSO or

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] KONKANI: Iddi, iecbat, kottarli, nac catro, opman, paunleo, popso

2015-02-20 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Thanks for sharing that, Melvyn. I remember Dr W. R. da Silva, when head of Goa University Sociology Department, would draw comparisons between different forms of Konkani, which had retained more of its 16th century influences (if I recall right) and how the influences of Portuguese/Marathi and