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Yesterday we were talking about Japanese for paper. It is 'kami'. Doesn't it sound familiar? When i was working on yesterday shot i refreshed the word 'origami' in my brain.
At the time i was learning some Japanese grammar and already knew about rendaku — when the second part of a compound word changes from unvoiced to a voiced syllable. Origami is that type of word — from ori meaning 'folding', and kami meaning 'paper'. Kami turns to 'gami' because of rendaku.
So i decided to make some origami. I never tried this before. Paper jets don't count (check out yesterday soundtrack if you didn't). The most famous and classical origami is traditional origami of a crane bird. Try it at your own, it's not as easy as it seems. I loved the process. Also this is awesome thing to show some magic to your kids if you have them.
So, obviously the word for today is 'crane'. Fun thing that in English this word means construction crane as well as crane bird. Japanese for Cranes (as a family) is ツル, and Karelian is 'Kurgi' — pretty similar to Finnish 'kurki'.