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kipisi

< maybe from Swahili kipisi "(little) piece (of wood); cut wood"

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Apr 14, 2017 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadjansegersApr 14, 2017

Google Translate recognizes the word kipisi as Swahili and renders it as 'sliver' in English

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sliver

Show threadjanPiteJansekeSep 18, 2018

Sonja Lang > Pite Janseke
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if I remember correctly, kipisi was from Inuktitut.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/linguisticcoincidences/permalink/2438273142857056/?comment_id=2439482996069404&reply_comment_id=2439865539364483

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Sometimes different languages coincidentally come to have similar-sounding words with similar or even identical meanings. For example, Swedish "koja" and Japanese "koya" (小屋) happen to mean the same...

Show threadjanPiteJansekeSep 19, 2018

So far I've been able to find this:

[PDF]Iñupiat Eskimo dictionary - Alaska State Library

p.49

uluun saw
kipluun (K), kivluun (N) cross-cut saw

p.50
kivluktuk cuts across

p.102
kipaluak steep undercut river bank

p.134
ikpiktitaktuk bank is being undercut by water
i.kpi.kt i.taktu k

p.140
kipriruk (K), kirriruk (N) cuts off, severs
kipligaa cuts it in two, severs it

and

p.122
ipiktuk is sharp

p.53
pisiksi (N), siksi (K) bow
https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/anlm/200078.pdf

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Show threadjanPiteJansekeSep 19, 2018

Greenlandic to English Dictionary

p.288
kipivaa
kipivâ
cuts it off; shortens, interrupts it;
circumcises him.

kipisaq
kipissaq
something from which a piece

kipiuippoq
kipiuípoq
is never cut off; never ceases;
continues incessantly.

kipiuitsumik, kipisuitsumik
kipiuitsumik, kipisuitsumik
uninterruptedly; without cessation.

http://2010.polarhusky.com/media/cms/investigate/StudyResources/EnglishKalaallisutDictionary.pdf

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