Re: liking (was: Re: Have a nice day, and other things...)

Matt Pearson wrote:
> Mia wrote:
> >[_nali_ is clearly related to _nalu_, "love".
There are several suspicious pairs in Watakassí, like [hyphens added
only to make the root clear, not actually written] wa-náu/láu (piece of
fruit/eat), wa-saní/pi-taní (house/inhabited place).  There is a prefix
n(a)- which means "that which/one who", or occasionally "that which
is/one who is" (i.e., passive), so náu is often thought of as being
short for n-láu (that which is eaten).  However, there's no evidence
that this is the case; wanáu goes back to Common Kassí, when na- meant
"person associated with" (later came to mean "one who", then finally
"one who, that which" - and now _tai-_ (related to su-takí, person) is
the normal prefix for "one who").  In fact, I think that the Common
Kassí had greater differences between the two; something like láqu vs.
náhu, or something like that, I don't have the etymologies with me.

However, the saní/taní correspondance is not so easily dismissed.  The
similarities go back to Common Kassí; it is may be that the two are
related, perhaps connected with pre-Kassí dialectal variations)