waiN

[R. Rankin]

> Alright, so concretely, how should we approach this?
> Are you saying that we should look for other MVS verb
> pairs of { *?V- | *k?V- } to see if they seem
> semantically related?  If so, do we have enough such
> pairs to produce a reasonable database?

Finding other glottal stems with the alternation would
be ideal, but there are so few viable glottal stems
that you'd probably want to extend the search beyond
them.  I think the phonology works, e.g., ki+?uN > k?uN
'article+did/do'.  I'm more worried about the precise
semantics in the case of 'carry' > 'wear'.  I am a
little apprehensive about stretching 'ones own' or
'oneself' to yield the meaning we get.  Ihave to admit
I haven't given it a lot of thought. . .

It occurs to me that I've seen various other verbs of
wearing and nouns derived from them for articles of
clothing.  Might pay to look at them too.

Bob