Sleeps and Winters

Bruce Ingham bi1 at soas.ac.uk
Wed Mar 21 12:31:10 UTC 2001


That's very interesting about  chaN.  I'd always thought it had something to
do with chaN(a)s^na 'as many times as, when, whenever'.  Is the
chaN in chaN (a) s^na also from the 'sleep' word.

Bruce

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From:           	Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
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Subject:        	Sleeps and Winters

  In Dakota Buechel
lists a term c^(h)aN 'night, day [apparently 24 hour day]' always
accompanied by a numeral and also, laconically, wani'yetu 'winter, year'.
The first of these Dakota terms is a regular cognate of OP zhaN 'sleep',
though it is not the regular verb 'to sleep' in Dakota.

JEK

Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS



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