concept of zero -> naked

shokooh Ingham shokoohbanou at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 20 13:23:27 UTC 2006


Si-chola also means 'bare-foot' although it looks like
'footless' and could perhaps be a derivatiuon from
si-ha chola ie 'withouty foot covering
Bruce
--- "Alfred W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> wrote:

>  > ha-cho'la  'skin-lacking' is the only term I know
> for 'naked' off the 
> top of my head -- which doesn't rule out the
> existence of competing 
> terms, of course.
>  
> Regina <<
> 
> 
>  >> "How's choka' (empty, without anything) and
> choka'la (naked, bare)
> related to this idea? Is it just homophonic? <<<<
> 
> 
> Buechel gives both hacho'la (cho'la: destitute,
> without, not having) and 
> choka'la. But there's also haco'cola (naked, as said
> of men), lit. 
> maybe: 'soft-skinned' fr. coco' (soft, as mud) and
> coco'la (soft)?
> 
> 
> Alfred
> 
> 
> 
> 



	
	
		
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