Re: USAGE: Butterfly (was: Reduplication enquiry)
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 11, 2003, 14:33 |
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On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:52 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Dirk Elzinga scripsit:
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>> Your Nahuatl is correct (I just looked it up). Other Uto-Aztecan
>> butterfly words:
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> Do any of these have transparent etymologies, or are they also quasi
> ideophones?
Shoshoni: wayapputunkih
not analyzeable as far as I can tell
Kaibab Paiute: aïcïvïtsi
aïcï- 'butterfly'
-vï 'ABSOLUTIVE'
-tsi 'ANIMATE'
The sequence -vï-tsi (and sandhi alternants -ppï-tsi/-mpï-tsi) is
commonly found on stems referring to animals:
yogovïtsi 'coyote' (yogo- 'copulate' -vï-tsi)
mooppïtsi 'owl' (moo- 'owl' -ppï-tsi)
wantsippïtsi 'antelope' (wantsi- 'antelope' -ppï-tsi)
ïnampïtsi 'badger' (ïna- 'badger' -mpï-tsi)
ogompïtsi 'bull snake' (ogo- 'bull snake' -mpï-tsi)
Luiseño: avéllaka
I don't know if this is analyzable; I was surprised that it was in the
little word list I have.
Hopi: povolhoya
povol- reduplicated form po-vol 'butterfly' (Hopi has intervocalic
lenition of /p/)
-hoya either from hooya 'blow away' or -hoya 'diminutive' (my guess is
the latter)
I don't know anything about the Navajo form.
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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