http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/11/16/cybils-little-vampire-by-joann-sfar/ Book reviews, snark, and adventures in locovoration Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:55:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/11/16/cybils-little-vampire-by-joann-sfar/comment-page-1/#comment-52866 Denis Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:45:02 +0000 http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=445#comment-52866 Yeah - there are some nice lists of English words borrowed from New World languages at <a href="http://www.zompist.com/indianwd.html" rel="nofollow">Mark Rosenfelder's site</a> and of course at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_from_indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>. Yeah – there are some nice lists of English words borrowed from New World languages at Mark Rosenfelder’s site and of course at Wikipedia.

]]> http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/11/16/cybils-little-vampire-by-joann-sfar/comment-page-1/#comment-52865 Sam Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:58:32 +0000 http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=445#comment-52865 Thanks, Denis! (Tomato is Aztec? Cool!) Thanks, Denis! (Tomato is Aztec? Cool!)

]]> http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/11/16/cybils-little-vampire-by-joann-sfar/comment-page-1/#comment-52854 Denis Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:53:47 +0000 http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=445#comment-52854 It's probably Fantomato in French. I guess since one is a Greek borrowing and the other is Aztec, those two words tend to be similar in lots of languages. It’s probably Fantomato in French. I guess since one is a Greek borrowing and the other is Aztec, those two words tend to be similar in lots of languages.

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