[Lingtyp] PUT=LET GO: An areal feature?

[E. Bashir]

Interestingly, in some languages I work on, e.g. Urdu (spoken in Pakistan and northern India), the word for 'to put, keep' (rakhnaa) is a semantic causative of the verb meaning 'to remain, stay' (rahnaa).  Thus it has a meaning opposite to that of the word for 'let go, abandon' (choRnaa).
Elena BashirThe University of Chicago

      From: Joo Ian <ian.joo at outlook.com>
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 Dear all,

I wonder if you know any language where the primary morpheme meaning 'to put' and the one meaning 'to let go (to seize holding something)' are the same.
At this point I only know four: Mandarin (fàng), Korean (noh), Mongolian (tav), and White Hmong (tso).
They are all spoken in East Asia (with White Hmong spreading out to SE Asia), so I wonder if this feature is unique to this area.

Regards,
Ian JOO (주이안)
http://ianjoo.academia.edu
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