The daiin

[Anton]

I often quickly forget what was discussed in the forum, and, the more surprising, I'm also in habit of forgetting the discussions in which I myself took most active part. So please excuse me if what I write below was discussed earlier, we'll merge the threads then.

I collated two trails of thought from the gallows intrusion thread - first one, that daiin may be used as a meaningless (?) filler (though any other vord may be as well, of course). The second one, that the beginnings and endings of lines may be particular candidate positions to place fillers in.

So I took ten most frequent vords (daiin, as we know, is the first one on that list), and calculated the percentage of occurrences which correspond to the vord 's in question being the first or the last vord of a line.

The results are below (the counts are based on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). The first number is the total count,  the second number is the count as line-initial, the third number is the count as line-final, and the final number is the percentage of "(line-initial plus line-final)/total".

daiin    864   156   134      33,4%
ol        538     31     47      14,5%
chedy  501       6     38        8,8%
aiin     470       0     34        7,2%
shedy  427       6     20        6,1%
chol     397     19      6        6,3%
or        366     31     20       13,9%
ar        352       5     27        9,1%
chey    344       5     19        7,0%
dar      319      36    47        26,0%


It's seen that daiin exhibits particular (and almost equal) affinity to line beginnings and endings, with one third of its total occurrences being in those positions, while for most other vords of the top ten, excluding only dar, the count does not exceed 15%, and mostly is under 10%.

What about "variations" of daiin, such as dain and daiiin?

dain    211   47   30      36,5%
daiiin    17     2    4       35,3%

That's funny.

I suspect that daiin is a filler indeed, with dain and daiiin being its variations that occupy slightly less and slightly more space, respectively.