mo:la and mo:lli

[John F. Schwaller]

To ask the question another way, is there an irreducible stem "mo:l" 
that conveys meaning of grinding?  Is it made a noun through the use of 
the singular absolutive suffix, and becomes a transitive verb through a 
verbing suffix "a" ?

The way you phrased it, John, seems to be a "which came first the 
chicken or the egg?" kind of question.





Michael McCafferty wrote:
> Quoting "John Sullivan, Ph.D." <idiez at mac.com>:
>
>   
>> Could it be that mo:la, "to grind s.t. up" comes from mo:lli,
>> "sauce", and not viceversa? In other words, mo:l-li + -a (the verbing
>> suffix that makes transitive verbs out of nouns, such as cocoa:  and
>> xi:xa).
>> John
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