Re: Water

TIM WROTE

This thread has inspired me to "discover" that the word for "water" in
> Hwendaaru is _ilyoushu_ [Il'jo:Su].
Snip

 Because _ilyoushu_ is a mass noun rather than a count noun, it
> can't take plural marking, but, like all mass nouns in Hwendaaru, it has a
> singulative form _ilyoushiku_ [Il'jo:Siku], meaning a discrete unit or
> quantity of water (depending on the context, it might mean a glass of water,
> a drop of water, or whatever), which _is_ a count noun and therefore does
> have a plural form _ilyoushiki_ [Il'jo:Siki].
same with the Shan cannibals' language :

sal : some water
sayel : a unit of water = sea, lake, pond, drop
sawel : water

rev : sky
reyev : a unit of sky = country
rewev : the sky




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> Tim Smith
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