Parkat êjê kryt 'nariz': cognatos em outras línguas Jê?

[jess tauber]

I don't know if relevant, but 19th century Yahgan, in Tierra del Fuego, had kvshuhr, 'nose'. In Yahgan r and sh alternate, as does t and hr. v here is schwa, and schwa plus following sh retains a great deal of rhotic character in many cases. In the surviving dialect 'nose' is recorded as kvshush, but this is following generations of obsolescence issues.

Jess Tauber
phonosemantics at earthlink.net
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