'mula' also = 'machine' #2

Henry Kammler h.kammler at EM.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE
Thu Apr 6 17:48:18 UTC 2006


I don't think CW /ma?in/ made it into Nuuchahnulth. The kinds of 
typical mills you find in the area are in NCN usually referred to by 
*what* the make, adding the suffix for "make" or "device for". Like
/piipaqiil~/ "pulp mill" (paper+make)
/chin'yakWiil~/ "shingle mill" (shingle+make)
[note: also /chin'yak/ is a loanword, it's interesting that English 
/-ngl-/ is reflected by /-n'y-/ with a glottalized Y, so they heard 
something like /?ing?l/]

Henry K. again

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