reflexive vs. suus 'make'.

R. Rankin rankin at ku.edu
Tue Aug 13 16:09:02 UTC 2002


Good summary.  BTW ga:ghe is consistently long; I
wonder what happens when the accent shifts?

> In OP
>
> base       dative         possessive (suus)
reflexive
>
> gaghe      giaghe         gikkaghe
kkikkaghe
>
> make       make for s.o.  make one's own       make
for oneself
>
> The forms for gaNze : giaNze etc, are analogous, but
the root sense of
> 'demonstrate, behave like' tends to be glossed
'teach' in the dative,
> i.e., 'to demonstrate to'.  This rather reminds me of
the perfect of 'to
> see' being 'to know' in Ancient Greek.  There's also
gaNdha 'to donate' in
> this group.  I think the other g-stems are
intransitive.  Actually,
> they're gaNz^iNga 'not to know how to' (presumably
takes a clausal
> argument) and gi 'to come home'.  If there are any
more, I'm forgetting
> them.

Can't recall any others either.

bob



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