#kisumisu

[words-for-cat-bracket]

quarterfinals!! - 4 of 4

brought to you by: kirby

kisumisu (finnish) vs 小猫 (mandarin chinese)

info and propawganda under the cut!

kisumisu - no IPA provided

Long and cute !

both parts already mean ""cat"" on their own, the repetition is added for maximum kittycat cuteness. also insanely fun to say

小猫 (xiǎo māo) /ɕjau̯˩ mɑu̯˥/

it rhymes and means little meow. what is a kitten if not a little meow

Perfect way to describe a cat. It rhymes and it sounds really cute. Also cmon look at a cat. That IS a xiao mao mao

you cannot tell me they are not the perfect word for a kitty cat. they came up to us and introduced themselves, so we decided to call them by the name they call themselves, and in mandarin, we call them ""little māo"" because they are our little meow meows!! they are our babies!! also chinese is Ancient. our writing system goes back like 4000 years!! and we are still using it! i admit we probably weren't calling them 貓 for all these 4000 years but respect your elders! /lh

[starlene]

Here's me giving tummy rubs to a very nice cat at the last Danish bed & breakfast we stayed at.

[demonfowl]

31 - Rauha

Lehto päikkäreillä 🥺 antakaa Lehdon ottaa kunnon päikkärit se ansaitsee ne. Huom. Viiru. (Viiru on @neodyymi n Alivuokralaisesta ja se on paras kisumisu)

Mutta Inktober on ohi nyt! Mitä ihmettä! Oon oikeesti tosi kiitollinen koska kouluhommat uhkaa jyrätä mut (puhumattakaan muista projekteista) ja saan nyt ehkä vähäsen revanssia kun koeviikko ei oo ihan vielä päällä, mutta kuitenkin.

[darkwingphoenix]

Tergol actually has the pronouns @cheeseanonioncrisps mentioned, in a fashion:

Stranger pronouns can also be used for those you queue up in a video game, and is usually the best time to use them, as well as someone you never talked to but saw. The pronouns used are Ka (Like she/he), Kawi (Her/him/man/woman). Ka is also conjugated to have what amounts to 's after a word. Example: So the kawi just slapped the cashier for not giving kawi ka's actual order despite ka being super vague about it.

Once you've met someone more than three times, you upgrade from Ka to the acquaintance pronouns, which are Ko/Komi.

Once you become friendly enough to an acquaintance, it's denoted as the two of you changing to Ra/Rawi. Rawi is also the word from just friend, and is basically how Kawi and Kumi work as well, being stranger and acquaintance respectively.

If you start dating someone, you shift to the lover pronouns, Ki/Kisu. Kisumisu is also used as a sort of ooey gooey analogue.

After marriage (If you do), you change to Ma/Marak.

Child pronouns are Mi/Mini.

Sibling pronouns are Si/Sitsi.

Parent pronouns are Ma/Mapos.

Cousin pronouns are Ku/Kuti.

Aunt/Uncle are Me/Melu.

Grandparents have no pronouns, but you can use their relation to your parents, or Manolima, she/he for a parent of a parent. The full word is maposnolimapos, or parent of my parent.

You can do this for anyone, so your sibling's GF would be your kisukitsunolisitsibolok, Lover of My Sibling. If they marry, she becomes your maraknolisitsi, Spouse of My Sibling.

Enemies have the pronouns Kil/Kiltsil. Enemy of My Enemy is Kiltsilnolikiltsil. Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend would basically be Kiltsilnolikiltsil = Rawi.

Coworkers have a unique pronoun set shared with Ally/Teammate, Kol/Koltatl.

Mortal Enemy, while traditionally only used in fiction as it's basically used for people you're gonna kill, is Mor/Mordor.

Humans who weren't raised speaking Tergol often had a very difficult time knowing which words to used, and often could only really use familial pronouns and maybe lover/spouse pronouns, sometimes friend if they're positive that's what they are.

Tergol speakers actually wound up making new pronouns essentially to serve as she/her and he/him, although most native speakers never use them, and basically only know them to know when a non-native speaker is talking about. They can often help teach a non-native speaker learn which pronouns to use, and native speakers can often tell non-natives just by hearing those pronouns used.

Native Tergol speakers are also really confused about the lack of a lot of pronouns. Most will wind up bastardizing relationship words initially to serve as pronouns. Spanish actually wound up remixing these new pronouns as gender neutral terms for those words. For example, Novi, Espos, and Herman.

This is such a cool idea. What other info could it be? Careers, hobbies, economic status, lifelong ambitions? Orientation, single/taken/etc status? Insect-style role in the hive (worker/drone etc)?

If human languages are based on primitive monkey-brain ideas of whether or not the person we’re talking about is a potential mate, then what different considerations might an alien race make?

Maybe they have two drastically different body types that need to pair off to defend from predators. Maybe their civilization depends on cultivating plants that grow best when sung to, and a range of different vocal tones per household is best. Maybe some are nocturnal and some are diurnal.

What else??

[ankkalinna]

I guess I should add pics of Donald’s cat Tabby to that post but I should get to bed so uh... a reminder Donald has a cat I guess.

[ruttotohtori]

Kisu tarkottaa kissaa (paitsi silloin, kun se tarkottaa tiettyä suomalaista iskelmälaulajaa). Kisumisu tarkottaa myös kissaa. Mut misu tarkottaaki naista. Kissa voi olla kissa tai nainen.

[afternooninthediscord]

Our Discord Civil War - like a month ago General Hachi leads team 1
With his right hand Chibi General Storm leads team 2
With kisu kinda just there

[mcrmadness]

Does someone here in the east really say "kasi" about a cat? I've never heard that, to me that word just means an 8.

Instead, this one is very common, at least in my family it is: kisumisu. As well as "katti karvajalka". And the word "kolli" is a very common word for male cats.

On the cat

"Cat" words:

Kissa [ˈk̟is̠ːɑ̝] is borrowed from Swedish "kisse/kissa"

Katti [ˈkɑ̝t̪ːi] is from Swedish "katt"

Kasi [ˈkɑ̝s̠i] is related to a common word for cat in many other languages that are related to Finnish, and in Finland it is dialectal (mostly eastern Finland)

Kisu [ˈk̟is̠u] is a more informal word but does mean a cat.

Kissimirri [ˈk̟is̠ːiˌmirːi] is also informal.

There are a few types of cat words you might run into, like:

Maatiaiskissa [ˈmɑ̝ːt̪iɑ̝i̯s̠ˌk̟is̠ːɑ̝], a landrace cat

Kotikissa [ˈko̞t̪iˌk̟is̠ːɑ̝], a household cat

Rotukissa [ˈro̞t̪uˌk̟is̠ːɑ̝], a purebred cat

Fun Facts!

- Cats are not native to Finland, they were brought in by the vikings as ship cats that catch mice and rats.

- Newer words for "cat" are "kiisu" and "kassi" from Estonian, which have spread through a few very famous meme (one pictured below)(Although kassi comes from Estonian "kass").

- "Kissanristiäiset" (literally: cat christening) is a word used to mean a "pointless social event"

[Explanation to this meme: as Estonian is related to Finnish, words can sound like "drunk Finnish" a lot. The word "kass" sounds a lot like "kassi" (bag) in Finnish. Kiisu just sounds cute to Finnish speakers.]

[sekuli]

Matikan tehtävänanto luokkaa mitä vittua

[kettutitaani]

Sweet, dearest and huggable please! 💕

Sweet: Favorite love song?- Hmmm... I actually don't know a favourite. Garazu no Hanazono from Love Live (ludd thats the idol lesbian song) because the meaning and the lyrics and the fuCKING LIVE. Then something in English... it's either Lady Gaga's "Bad romance" or Elvis Presley's "Suspicious minds". A Finnish love song I find listening to many many many times is PMMP's "Rakkaalleni", "To my dear(est)". The lyrics gets dark but I love it. Dearest : What item is most dear to you? - My phone lmao. Just kidding, I don't actually know. My childhood cat plushie Kisumisu or plushies and necklaces you've given me. :3c Huggable : What are your favorite flowers?- I like lilies, sunflowers and some with purple on them. 🌻

[words-for-cat-bracket]

round 4 - week 4 - 2 of 4

brought to you by: cinnamon

kisumisu (finnish) vs popoki (hawaiian)

info and propawganda under the cut!

kisumisu - no IPA provided

Long and cute !

both parts already mean "cat" on their own, the repetition is added for maximum kittycat cuteness. also insanely fun to say

popoki - no IPA provided

no propawganda provided :(

[kvartsi]

(Minäkö jaan mielelläni kissakuvia? I would never!)

Mutta tässä on Tove ("Tuuve"), aka. Tovelius, Toveliini, Kisumisu...

Hei suomitumppulaiset haluaisin kovasti nähdä lemmikkikuvia, ja etenkin kuulla millaisia nimiä (lempinimet mukaanlukien) heillä on :) kiitoksia etukäteen!

[starlene]

Something that happened back in January, when I was watching En del av mitt hjärta in the cinema and the world hadn’t gone quite insane yet (feels like it’s been years since that), keeps coming back to my mind.

In the movie, one of the minor characters owns a cat. Usually, cinema audiences around here are pretty quiet – but during that screening, when the cat first appeared onscreen, a girl sitting in front of me spoke loud enough for everybody to hear:

“WITTLE KITTY” (= “KISUMISU”)

Then she, and everybody else, stayed quiet for the rest of the movie.

I hope that girl has been staying healthy this spring and has been living her best life despite everything.

[101tapaavalmistaaperuna]

Tapa 55

Kiss, Marry, Kill, Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich der Große, Napoleon Bonaparte

Minulla oli siis eilen synttärijuhlat, koska sitä oli ehdotettu. Alun perin kuten olen todennäköisesti maininnut ajattelin, etten juhlisi koko juhlaa. Juhlistuksen piti olla vain se, että maistraatti saa tiedon minun ja kristillisen uskonnon erosta.

Mutta minulla sitten oli synttärijuhlat ja minulla oli kyllä oikein mukavaa! :-)

Jugurttipommi... Se on siis jugurttikakku??? ja hilloa??? on muuten todella hyvää :-)

Juhlat alkoivat kello 18:30. Minusta se oli aika myöhään mutta ajattelin että maassa maan tavalla. Ehdotus tuli nimittäin hosteilta ja näin oli myös kaverini juhlansa järjestänyt.

Synttäreillä tarjottiin ruokaruokaa eli pitsaa. Tämä oli helpoin järjestää siten, että kaikki saivat haluamansa täytteitä - eli kasvissyöjille ja vegaanille oma pitsa ja niiille, jotka syövät lihaa sitten lihallista pitsaa. Oli myös sipsejä, Katjes-karkkeja ja suklaata. Lisäksi oli itsetehtyä “limonadia”. Sitruunamehua se oli mutta itsetehtyä.

Pelasimme pelejä (mm. Kiss-Marry-Kill, Never Have I ever...) ja höpisimme vähän mistä lie... :D

Juhlat jatkuivat sitten yhteentoista asti.. Ei se minua haitannut, vaikken itse olekaan tottunut tällaiseen. :)

Maininnan arvoisia asioita:

En ollut ainoa hameessa/mekossa. Meitä oli jopa kaksi.

Minun YEOni, joka oli myös juhlissa, oli opettanut yhdelle minun kavereistani kuvaamataitoa muutamisen vuotta sitten

Muut ovat toisesta koulusta, joten heille YEO ei ollut opettanut mitään (tai olivat toisessa osavaltiossa lol)

Kyllä minulta kerran kysyttiin, että miltä tuntuu nyt olla 18-vuotias. Jaa-a Ei mitenkään erilaiselta.

Harjoitan materialismia ja iloitsen saamistani hienoista lahjoista. Tästä puuttuvat jo aikaisemmin saadut lahjat mutta se ei liene kamala asia.

Kirjat, jotka sain:

Kirja Euroopan (HRR:n) reformaatiosta.

Saksan historia sadassa objektissa (eli kirjassa on esine ja sitten kerrotaan, miten tämä on vaikuttanut Saksan (tai saksankielisen alueen, koska Itävalta potkittiin ulos Saksasta Bismarckin toimesta ja sitä ennen tapeltiin vähän mutta toisaalta Habsburgit hallitsivat HRR:ssä vuodesta 1438 vuoteen 1806, välissä oli joku muukin, mutta... ja osa Italiasta ja nykyisestä Ranskasta on kuulunut myös HRR:ään...)) historiaan

Kokonainen kirja täynnä tutkimuksia sukupuolesta ja sukupuolesta. Rakastan, kun suomessa termistö on vajaata. Niin että biologisesta sukupuolesta ja sosiaalisesta sukupuolesta, joka on muuten todella harjaanjohtava termi ja sitten käsitellään vielä seksualisuutta. Niin kuin 666/5 kirja ;-)) Kyseisen kirjan antaja pilaili, että ostaa punaisen kirjan tai jonkin vastaavan. Hän on Sachsen Anhaltista, joten vitsejä ovat joko se, että hän on preussilainen tai kommunisti. Näitä ei kuitenkaan voi yhdistää.

This Lonely Planet, minun lempparishoujomangan kuudes osa. Tätä kun on vaan saksaksi niin se on kerättävä :T

Muut objektit lienevät tunnistuskelpoisia. Kukapa ei sukkia tunnistaisi. Tosin nuo näyttävät tuossa kuvassa hieman lapasilta mutta ei se mitään...

Extra:

Kisumisu ja öttiäinen

Tällanen keli sitten täällä..

[petit-cottage]

Tina Tamaki x Kisumisu furisode collection 2016

[woopey]