Schaffition

This morning, I was reading the Romansh newspaper and came across the "Word for Sunday", talking about how "water is life".

One word which caught my eye was scaffiziun, which seemed to mean "creation". (meinPledari glosses rm-sr "scaffir" as "schaffen, schöpfen, erschaffen", which makes this seem likely. I can't reach Pledari Grond online right now to check "scaffiziun" in particular.)

It seems likely to me that scaffir (rm-rg "stgaffir") is borrowed from Germanic, so the combination of such a root with a Latin suffix looks funny to me :) Like "Schaffition" would in German, or perhaps "makeition" (from "make") in English.

Of course, that sort of word (stem from one language, derivational affix from another) is probably not unusual in English or German, only you tend not to notice them as much if they're words you're used to.

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In mostly-unrelated news, it seems that Surmiran does "article + possessive + noun" like Italian does (à la "the your book"); I don't think I've seen that in other Romansh idioms.

Amy: hair and diet

A short while ago, Amy cut off some of her hair... just when the hair she had cut off one one side had grown back nicely, she went and cut off some hair on the other side.

Stella sent her to the hairdresser's with me to attempt to salvage what she could; she had to chop off quite a bit more than last time due to the way Amy had cut. So now Amy has pretty short hair. (And when she was done, I could see myself in her for the first time; with that short hair, she looked quite strikingly like some pictures I've seen of me as a small child.)

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In other news, Amy is on a dairy-free diet now.

( Details include a tad of TMI, perhaps )

She's taken really well to the change in diet. She finishes off soy chocolate pudding with gusto, takes her cereal with her soy–rice milk ("her milk"), has given away her chocolate to me "because she won't be needing it any more", and so on. I'm happily surprised.

Stella has also taken to having soy milk with her cereal (but a different kind from Amy's, since Amy's kind makes her mouth itch; she has a salt-free soy milk that's marketed as being for baking).