verbs of carrying

Christopher Sundita cas536 at CORNELL.EDU
Mon Sep 1 23:58:19 UTC 2014


Hello,

Here is the verb "to carry on the head" in four Philippine languages:

Bikol (North): luluto
Cebuano: lukdo
Ilokano: suon
Tagalog: sunong
As for  agender-specific words for carry, as a Tagalog speaker, I don't
know of any word for such a distinction.

--Chris

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Christopher Sundita
Graduate Student, Linguistics
http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/csundita


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Deborah.Hill <Deborah.Hill at canberra.edu.au>
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>  I’m working on verbs of carrying in Longgu (Oceanic) and I wondered if
> anyone had any data on ‘carry’ verbs in other Austronesian languages (and
> especially Western Austronesian languages).
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> The two things that I’m most interested in are:
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> 1.       Is there a verb for ‘carry on the head’ (and if so, what is it)?
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> 2.       Are there modes of carrying that are (semantically)
> gender-based?  (i.e. women carry things in one way, men in another).
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> The verb for ‘carry something on the head’ in Longgu is SUNGI.
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> Thanks for your help!
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