concept of zero -> naked
shokooh Ingham
shokoohbanou at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jan 20 13:23:27 UTC 2006
Si-chola also means 'bare-foot' although it looks like
'footless' and could perhaps be a derivatiuon from
si-ha chola ie 'withouty foot covering
Bruce
--- "Alfred W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> wrote:
> > ha-cho'la 'skin-lacking' is the only term I know
> for 'naked' off the
> top of my head -- which doesn't rule out the
> existence of competing
> terms, of course.
>
> Regina <<
>
>
> >> "How's choka' (empty, without anything) and
> choka'la (naked, bare)
> related to this idea? Is it just homophonic? <<<<
>
>
> Buechel gives both hacho'la (cho'la: destitute,
> without, not having) and
> choka'la. But there's also haco'cola (naked, as said
> of men), lit.
> maybe: 'soft-skinned' fr. coco' (soft, as mud) and
> coco'la (soft)?
>
>
> Alfred
>
>
>
>
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