-
diphthong (e.g. uo)
would be
immediately followed by the same vowel, e.g.
ruoko → ruo'on,
vaaka → vaa'an. (This is in
contrast to
compound words, where...
- 1039/C7SC00154A. hdl:1969.1/183772. Yang, Chi-Yuan; Stoeckel, Marc-Antoine;
Ruoko, Tero-Petri; Wu, Han-Yan; Liu, Xianjie; Kolhe,
Nagesh B.; Wu, Ziang; Puttisong...
-
origin of the ruoke-
element is unclear. It may have been
derived from
ruoko ("reed"), the verb
ruokkia ("to feed") or from the
dialectal word ruokkeet...
