[Lexicog] What is considered "meat"?

[phil cash cash]

hehe, great example Ken!

phil cash cash (Cayuse/Nez Perce)
UofA

On May 22, 2004, at 8:35 PM, Kenneth C. Hill wrote:
> The question of 'meat' and 'fish' barely arises. The Hopi live in the
> desert and do not regard eating fish highly. I do find in the Hopi
> Dictionary corpus the following:
>
> Pakìwtangat aqw hötayaqw is ítseningwu.
> When a can of fish is opened, it sure does smell awful.
>
> Note that it is 'a can of fish' (pakìw- < paakiw, fish + tanga, 
> multiple
> things in a container), not 'a can of fish meat' ('fish meat' would be
> *pakwisikwi, I think 'a can of fish meat' would be *pakiwsikwitanga).
>
> --Ken Hill



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