Thursday, July 22, 2010

Re:Mommy are you making up these words...

Bebe asked if I was making up some of the Oshiwambo words like: Bed/Ombete, lamp/olamba, telephone/otelefona, cup/ekopi. I said no, then he asked if I was stealing from the English dictionary. I said no LOL, we just borrowed. I laughed so hard.
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2 comments:

Joseph Lekgwathi said...

Haha! those are called "Oingolotya", words derived from other languages... I think we losing our original Oshiwambo.

August 21, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Helvi said...

Thanks Joseph for adding this one. Have a good day!

August 27, 2010 at 4:06 PM

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