Hasa or Diga - Which word is the f-word?

The phrase “Hasa Diga Eebowai!” [f-u God] includes the compound term “Hasa Diga.” Eebowai means God. My question is, which word is the f-word and which is the u-word?

Does hasa mean f and diga means you? Or maybe (in that language or dialect) the pronoun(?) “you” would precede the verb(?) “f”. So then the word for f is actually diga.

In support of the latter is the phrase “Ma ha nei bu, Eebawai!” – Thank you God!
Isn’t it possible (probable?) that nei bu means “thanks” and Ma ha means “you”, or perhaps “to you” (parallel to the ha or hasa of the f-u phrase)?

Any insight would be appreciated.


p.s.

It is also possible that the spacing is f’d up. Maybe the first word is ha or has (meaning “you”) (even more closely matching the “Thank you God” phrase); and the f-word is either Sadiga or Adiga. Remember, words/syllables are not always broken up as we would expect, and spelling is not always as in English –- “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” as an example.

Updated On: 6/16/11 at 04:03 PM

I totally agree, Jordan. I totally agree.

Oy!

He explains it in the show

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I think it's a fun exercise, and doesn't suck any enjoyment out of anything for me. :)

Your analysis is promising. Perhaps ha is the unmarked form of the second-person pronoun, and this form is used after a preposition like ma. Then hasa could be the accusative form of the second-person pronoun, preceding the verb diga (as you suggest).

Who knows if Parker, Stone, or Lopez thought about any of this. Perhaps not, but I'm having fun thinking about it.

Of course it's a made up language. But apparently there are a few of us out here - a very few; I'm shocked I'm not the only one - who find it kind of fun to speculate about these things, even knowing they were pulled out of thin air.

I wonder if they ever thought about conjugating Diga.

Or what the past tense of Hasa would be.

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They didn't just randomly make up some words. Over the course of 10 years, they carefully developed and perfected and entirely new language for the show.

No one knows where their translation dictionary is, but many speculate it is buried somewhere with some gold plates.

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...who cares?

I'm thinking along the same lines as you p.s.

The phrase is clearly pronounced (by Michael Potts): "Has adiga eebowai". I just assumed that elder Cunningham messed it up as usual and Trey and Matt thought it'd be funnier to name the song after his mispronunciation. At least in Somali, "adiga" appears to mean "you". Also when you google "has adiga" you do get a lot of hits in some obscure language, possibly Somali. So I don't think they made it up originally.

/Johan

http://www.redsea-online.com/modules.php?name=dictionary&searchlanguage=somali&func=display&words=adiga

That means "green bean casserole."

in Esperanto, it's: fikighu Dio!

just sayin' ...

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Did you try Google Translate?