Re: Root reversal in Dravidian

Tim May wrote:
> Danny Wier wrote at 2004-05-19 21:19:24 (-0500)
> [...]
>  >
>  > My question: is this an exclusive feature of Dravidian, or can this be
> found
>  > in other languages (besides Shelta, obviously)? Maybe I should form
> antonyms
>  > in Tech by reversing the word, so that _bwarg_ 'to make war' becomes
> _grabw_
>  > 'to make peace'...
>
>
> Not exactly the same phenomenon (if the phenomenon is even real in
> Dravidian) but you might find this paper on root-inversion in Salishan
> interesting.  (It's more a matter of cognate terms being reversed
> versions of each other.)
>
> http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan/SALISH.type1.pdf
What a fascinating paper! At one point I was reminded of Austronesian "root
theory" (whereby the canonic CVCVC is said to be prefix CV + root CVC) but
it wasn't quite applicable.  This led to---

ObConlang!! In Gwr, as I'm slowly developing it, it would be possible to
have morphologically related proto-forms like *pálap ~ *paláp-- in those
languages that reduce everything to a monosyllable, this would end up as
**pal ~ **lap (unfortunately, in Bau Da Gwr, with further sound changes,
you'd get /paN/ ~ /la?/, so the relationship is surely obscured if not
lost).

In terms of Danny's question, if some underlying strategy could be devised,
it might be an interesting way to form derivatives or relatives or antonyms.
Why not??