Re: Changing worldviews with language (LONG)

Muke Tever wrote:
>     Llueve.
>     Nieve.    (and not: *él/ella nieve)
And Japanese says:
Ame ga futteru (lit. Rain is falling)
Yuku ga futteru (lit. Snow is falling)

Classical Uatakassi did the same thing, but by Post-Classical times, the
verb _guatia_ "fall", came to be restricted to weather phenomena, and
was generalized to *all* weather phenomena (the fog is "falling", the
thunder is "falling", etc.), thus in post-Classical Uatakassi, it can be
said to be just a generic verb to turn a weather-related noun into a
verb.

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