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<DIV> </DIV><BR>Scott,<BR>From the back of my head I can only tell you so
far the way to refer to the sun and the moon in Western Otomi:<BR><BR>"nzöno"
(<ö> open /o/) is the name for the moon, and as usual for month as
well.<BR>"hjadi" is the sun, it's root "hja-" -an old palatalization of a
certain /-j/ group on an ancient "ha-" theme- is also found in the word for
"light", which is "hja-'-ts'i". Sorry about tones, but I believe that in both
cases the /a/ in the root receives a low tone. <BR><BR>I'll look into the way
the say other astronomic entities, but as for the moon and the sun, I have heard
people refer to them as "our honorable father the sun " and "our honorable
mother the moon". And here the morph for "father" is older than the current word
for father, which evinces that the construction is old enough. If you need more
details, I'm here.
<BR><BR>Inspirations,<BR>Enrique<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>At 12:11 PM 11/12/02 -0600,
Scott Berthiaume wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>I have started
collecting astronimical terms for Northern Pame (Otomanguean, San Luis
Potosi). So far I have just these:</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Venus: proper noun meaning 'morning star'</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Orion's belt: staff to sow seed</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Piamedes: 'the women'</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Sun:
'man'</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Moon:
'woman'</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Anyone have any data or
sources for others in Otomanguean?</FONT><BR> <BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>Scott Berthiaume</FONT><BR><FONT face=arial
size=2>-------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Scott
and Tonia Berthiaume<BR>Fuente del Bosque #117<BR>Col. Balcones del
Valle<BR>San Luis Potosí, SLP<BR>México<BR>email: <A
href="mailto:scott-tonia_berthiaume@sil.org">scott-tonia_berthiaume@sil.org</A></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>