Lakota ki- 'to become by itself'

[Clive Bloomfield]

Greetings David, You are most welcome!
  Might that be due to the semantic-field of 'skuya' perhaps covering  
'salt(y)/sour', in addition to 'sweet' , as shown in such apparent  
derivatives of the root as :
'skumna'/'oskumna' ='sour-smelling; sourish';
'oskuya' ='sour (e.g., as milk)';
'wiskuye' ='something which sours (OR sweetens) food '[Buech.-Md.]--- 
 >i.e. 'spice/condiment'?

Regards,
Clive.


On 11/12/2007, at 5:03 PM, ROOD DAVID S wrote:

> Clive, thanks for this interesting list.  I had forgotten about "ki- 
> skuya 'become sweet'", but I'm reminded of a very odd additional  
> meaning for that word: 'to become sour, of milk'.  My personal  
> semantic space does not equate the taste of sour milk with the  
> sensation I would identify as "sweet".  Does anyone understand how  
> this might work?
>
> David S. Rood
> Dept. of Linguistics
> Univ. of Colorado
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