Re: Today's word: "brush"

Herman Miller wrote:
> I'm going back into vocabulary-building mode for a while...
> I'll start with "brush". It occurred to me that "brushing" your teeth
> and "brushing" your hair wouldn't necessarily use the same verb.
No, not in Kash-- it would be "clean" the teeth.

We don't yet have all the distinctions, but--

ñanik (vb. intr.) to comb/brush the fur; eñanik ~colloq. ñaniki 'a comb or
brush for the fur'; ñanikici (with dim. -ci) nici 'toothbrush' (both colloq.
probably originally < eñanik

topekut 'a paint-brush of any size'-- though the derivation suggests more a
small artist's brush:  topet 'stylus, pencil' + ekut 'hair'

Note that the Kash distinguish 'fur' (ecut) from 'hair' (ekut).

We don't yet have words for 'to paint', 'paint (noun)' 'to apply (one thing
to another, as paint to a wall). Nor 'smear, daub' IIRC. Ahimé, back to the
to-do list.