FEELINGS (Abstract Notions)
Clive Bloomfield
cbloom at ozemail.com.au
Tue Dec 11 02:12:06 UTC 2007
Hello Alfred, Can't say much about the 'etyma' of "kimimila", but
there is (B-Md., s.v.) "kiwiwila" : 'to turn into a spring',
(apparently used in B.H. 181.21). At least it rhymes, eh?
I would love to know the etymology of "kimimila' though!
BTW, frustratingly, B-Md.'s citations from the famous 1924 'Bible
History' do not appear to correspond at all with my copy of the
Benziger Bros. edition of that year. (E.g. page 181 has only 19 lines
of text : 'kiwiwila' does not appear there.)
I've also stumbled across :
kithaN'iN : glossed by B-Md. as "to appear; be visible FOR". (given
that translation, clearly 1st Dative, no?)
Since, as we know, thaN'iN means : "(be) visible/apparent/manifest",
might that verbal derivative be another lead towards possible first
dative origins of that 'ki-' prefix? :
kithaN'iN : (perhaps) 'to become visible/apparent, etc.' -->'to show
up suddenly/to suddenly become manifest'(??). Just speculations.
Also, as Regina observes, there may well be an Aspectual component of
some kind (at least with some of these ki- items)
Sudden change or entrance into a state? Ingressive? Inchoative?.
But I am also attracted to that suggested semantic similarity with
the instrumental prefixes 'na-' ['by inner force' (B&D, p.46)] &
'ka-' [with/by 'indeterminate outer force'(B&D p.47, #46.2)]
Was meinst du dazu, meiner Freund?
Alles Gute!
Clive.
On 11/12/2007, at 1:39 AM, Alfred W. Tüting wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Bruce,
> only now I know that I should've remembered _kizuzeca_, at least.
> Now, I found still another one: kimakxa (B.-M. "turn into soil, as
> anything rotten in the ground").
>
> Alfred
>
> P.S. I wonder if kimimila (butterfly) has smth to do with this
> issue (mila??)
>
>
>>
>>
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>
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