Let's learn through tankas,
or Japanese poetry a bit like haikus. Different syllable count, though, and they have five lines, not three. The first part is tan, which meant "short" in Japanese, and then ka comes next, definition of "ditty". So, together, it's "brief song".
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AUTHORHello! I'm Adam Aleksic, a sophomore studying government and linguistics at Harvard University, where I co-founded the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. In addition to etymology, I also really enjoy politics, vexillology, geography, board games, conlanging, and law.
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