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Sumerian to Sāmoan: Comparative Glossary: Half, Hapa, Afa, Aha, Aba




The Sāmoan word for “daughter” is #AFAFINE, which literally means “half of a woman” with a dropped reduplication on FA.


𒀀𒁀 / 𒀀𒄩= ABA/#AHA = AFA = “half issue”

𒁉𒉈 / 𒄭𒉈 = BINE/HINE = “woman”, or, more accurately, “womb”-“man”.


Decomposing the Sāmoan word into Sumerian morphemes yields an equivalent translation:


Sumerian:

A = "a progeny", “semen”, “issue”

BA/HA = "to halve"

BI/HI = "sweet" (as with sugars used in making beer), "to mix", "same"

NE = "to cook" (euphemism for pregnancy, as with the Hebrew Genesis account of Eve's curse--"your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you"--"rule over" sounds lime “to cook")


Translation:

”a sweet progeny issued from semen mixed and cooked“ (metaphorically speaking, a “sweetened” technical euphemism for the product of a process of insemination and gestation)


AFA TASI, “HALF BREED”

𒀀𒁀 / 𒀀𒄭 = ABA/#AHA = AFA = “half issue”

𒋫𒋛 = #TASI = “one finger”+”as much as”


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