FEELINGS (Abstract Notions)

[Clive Bloomfield]

Hello Alfred, Can't say much about the 'etyma' of "kimimila", but  
there is (B-Md., s.v.) "kiwiwila" : 'to turn into a spring',  
(apparently used in B.H. 181.21). At least it rhymes, eh?
I would love to know the etymology of "kimimila' though!

BTW, frustratingly, B-Md.'s citations from the famous 1924 'Bible  
History' do not appear to correspond at all with my copy of the  
Benziger Bros. edition of that year. (E.g. page 181 has only 19 lines  
of text : 'kiwiwila' does not appear there.)

I've also stumbled across :

kithaN'iN : glossed by B-Md. as "to appear; be visible FOR". (given  
that translation, clearly 1st Dative, no?)

Since, as we know, thaN'iN means : "(be) visible/apparent/manifest",  
might that  verbal derivative be another lead towards possible first  
dative origins of that 'ki-' prefix? :

kithaN'iN : (perhaps) 'to become visible/apparent, etc.' -->'to show  
up suddenly/to suddenly become manifest'(??). Just speculations.

Also, as Regina observes, there may well be an Aspectual component of  
some kind (at least with some of these ki- items)
Sudden change or entrance into a state? Ingressive? Inchoative?.
But I am also attracted to that suggested semantic similarity with  
the instrumental prefixes 'na-' ['by inner force' (B&D, p.46)] &  
'ka-' [with/by 'indeterminate outer force'(B&D p.47, #46.2)]
Was meinst du dazu, meiner Freund?
Alles Gute!
Clive.

On 11/12/2007, at 1:39 AM, Alfred W. Tüting wrote:

> Thanks a lot, Bruce,
> only now I know that I should've remembered _kizuzeca_, at least.  
> Now, I found still another one: kimakxa (B.-M. "turn into soil, as  
> anything rotten in the ground").
>
> Alfred
>
> P.S. I wonder if kimimila (butterfly) has smth to do with this  
> issue (mila??)
>
>
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