reflexive vs. suus 'make'.
R. Rankin
rankin at ku.edu
Tue Aug 13 16:09:02 UTC 2002
Good summary. BTW ga:ghe is consistently long; I
wonder what happens when the accent shifts?
> In OP
>
> base dative possessive (suus)
reflexive
>
> gaghe giaghe gikkaghe
kkikkaghe
>
> make make for s.o. make one's own make
for oneself
>
> The forms for gaNze : giaNze etc, are analogous, but
the root sense of
> 'demonstrate, behave like' tends to be glossed
'teach' in the dative,
> i.e., 'to demonstrate to'. This rather reminds me of
the perfect of 'to
> see' being 'to know' in Ancient Greek. There's also
gaNdha 'to donate' in
> this group. I think the other g-stems are
intransitive. Actually,
> they're gaNz^iNga 'not to know how to' (presumably
takes a clausal
> argument) and gi 'to come home'. If there are any
more, I'm forgetting
> them.
Can't recall any others either.
bob
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