Lovely Words

From Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red:

AA
SYLLABICATION: a·a
PRONUNCIATION: ää
VARIANT FORMS: or a'a
NOUN: Lava having a rough surface.
ETYMOLOGY: Hawaiian 'a', to burn, aa.

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One of the Yamana's variations of the word 'bite' meant "to come surprisingly on a hard substance when eating something soft e.g. a pearl in a mussel."



Don't ask me why I find these interesting--I just do.

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