Comments on: Chapter 4 – Swedish Furniture and Katakana Loanwords http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/ A little place for learning languages Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:10:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: thomas http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/comment-page-1/#comment-109 thomas Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:32:54 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/#comment-109 @Justin: np. I hope you'll come back and visit again sometime. @toad: good point. I should have looked it up. The Online Etymology Dictionary lists it as coming from either Greek, Chinese or Arabic. It seems a bit inconclusive, but it definitely doesn't come from Japanese! I'll edit my post. Thanks a lot! @Justin: np. I hope you’ll come back and visit again sometime.

@toad: good point. I should have looked it up. The Online Etymology Dictionary lists it as coming from either Greek, Chinese or Arabic. It seems a bit inconclusive, but it definitely doesn’t come from Japanese! I’ll edit my post. Thanks a lot!

]]> By: toad http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/comment-page-1/#comment-103 toad Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:07:13 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/#comment-103 I would have thought "typhoon" came from the mandarin reading of those characters (in simplified: 台风) tai2 feng1. I would have thought “typhoon” came from the mandarin reading of those characters (in simplified: 台风) tai2 feng1.

]]> By: Justin http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Justin Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:05:21 +0000 http://babelhut.com/languages/japanese/project-mayhem/chapter-4-swedish-furniture-and-katakana-loanwords/#comment-102 Thanks for giving me this link I actually would like to learn Japanese :) Thanks for giving me this link I actually would like to learn Japanese :)

]]>