Re: Different words for one thing

Pablo Flores escribi=F3:

> u    [u]      'drinkable or flowing water'
> huti ['PutSi] 'undrinkable water, unmoving dirty water'
Sounds somehow as _fuchi_, common Spanish exclamation for something that
stinks.

> The issue is: different names for the same thing when
> it's not quite the same. Do any of your conlangs or natlangs
> do this? As for Spanish, we have _pez_ and _pescado_ for
> the types of 'fish' above, but there's a common root there;
> _pescado_, being a noun, is the same as the passive participle
> of _pescar_ 'to fish'.
some examples in Chleweyish:

dowga /du:Ga/ - friend
panna /pan:a/ - close friend, same sex
mewro /mju4o/ - close friend, opposit sex

coora /kO:4a/ - bone (part of a living vertebrate)
ceyra /tSi:4a/ - bone (after flesh has disappeared) (probably related)

ballo /bal:o/ - dust (on objects), powders (on objects, in recipients)
rucya /rutSa/ - dust (in the air)

burbu /bu@BU/ - ice (you can set foot on)
djonga /dj\ONga/ - ice (in a drink)

-- Carlos Th