[An-lang] Fwd: Post to AnLang

[Laurent Sagart]

Any connection with Spanish *pinto* 'painted' ? just a thought.

Laurent

2017-06-26 6:05 GMT+02:00 Malcolm Ross <malcolmross42 at gmail.com>:

> This post is intended to elicit possible cognates of a form commonly used
> in Isinay, a language of Northern Luzon, Philippines.
>
> The form is written as *pinutuan*, and only occurs in the phrase *uwes
> pinutuan *'tie-dyed blanket', where *uwes* /ʔúwes/ is from a
> Proto-Northern Luzon *ʔúləs (note Ifugao /ʔúloh/, Ilokano /ʔúles/). In
> Isinay it is clearly a borrowed word (possibly from Ilokano before Isinay
> medial *l was lost in this environment), since schwa is normally reflected
> as /o/ in Isinay. Similarly final *s is commonly reflected as Isinay /t/).
>
>
> The form *pinutuan *is sometimes pronounced [pinutúʔan], although other
> possibilities exist [pinutúwan], [pinutuʔán], and [pinutuwán], since Isinay
> has a contrast between /ʔ/ and a high glide after /i/ and /u/ (e.g., /síʔa/
> 'you' and /siyá/ 'he/she/it', and lexical stress is contrastive). Tie-dyed
> blankets are no longer made in Isinay, and the practice died out several
> generations ago. They were commonly sold to Ifugao, Bontoc, and Kankanay
> people to wrap dead bodies before burial.  However Isinay terms which could
> be possible sources have nothing to do with tie-dying (*/*putúʔ/ 'explosion',
> from which we could get /pinutuʔán/ 'killed by a gunshot or other
> explosion', and /pútu/ 'sever with a downward blow of an axe or bolo',
> from which we could get /pinutúwan/ 'killed by having one's head or other
> limb cut off'). But nothing to do with tie-dying. Possible this form is
> also borrowed, but from where?
>
> For a description of the blanket see this file:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19gCZd2KnoUMjJyVlJnaDNEOEU/view
>
> Laurie Reid
> ​
>
>
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