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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" ?<br>
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The way you phrased it, John, seems to be a "which came first the
chicken or the egg?" kind of question.<br>
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Michael McCafferty wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Quoting "John Sullivan, Ph.D." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:idiez@mac.com"><idiez@mac.com></a>:
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<pre wrap="">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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What was the question?
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