[Lingtyp] PUT=LET GO: An areal feature?

[Mark W. Post]

Found in Adi (TB > Tani > Eastern Tani, Eastern Himalaya) also, root is më
(schwa).
Mark

On Thu., 3 Jan. 2019, 15:53 Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com
wrote:

> It is the case in Japhug, where the verb *ta *means both "put" and
> "leave, let go, release", see the Japhug-Chinese-French dictionary, p.316:
>
> https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01244860v2/document
>
> with sound files:
> http://himalco.huma-num.fr/dictionaries/japhug/dictionary_mp3.pdf
>
> Jacques, Guillaume 2016. Dictionnaire Japhug-chinois français, version
> 1.1, Paris: projet Himalco.
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 3 janv. 2019 à 11:02, Joo Ian <ian.joo at outlook.com> a écrit :
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wonder if you know any language where the primary morpheme meaning 'to
>> put' and the one meaning 'to let go (to seize holding something)' are the
>> same.
>> At this point I only know four: Mandarin (fàng), Korean (noh), Mongolian
>> (tav), and White Hmong (tso).
>> They are all spoken in East Asia (with White Hmong spreading out to SE
>> Asia), so I wonder if this feature is unique to this area.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ian JOO (주이안)
>> http://ianjoo.academia.edu
>>
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