Re: verbs of eating

Does this verb "go" = "to eat" also apply to plants ?

Normally plants don't "eat", but they feed themselves.
And what about microscopic animals, made out of only
one or a few cells ?

How do you exactly define "to eat" ?

Do you use the same verb "go" in metaphoric sense
(like in: Time devours our lives) (if this is the
right translation for French: Le temps devore nos
vies); also: "devorer un livre" (to read a book
eagerly).

--- "John L. Leland" <Lelandconlang@...> wrote:
> I regret to say that Rihana-ye has only one verb for
> eating,"go" which is
> used indifferently for eating by humans of all ranks
> and situations and also for
> eating by animals and other non-humans. It would be
> possibly to indicate the
> social situation by various adverbs, honorific or
> denigrating prefixes etc. but
> the basic verb would remain thesame.
> John Leland

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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