Friday, December 21, 2018

Lexember 21st: chauha, "rabbit"


Today's word, chauha /ˈtʃaʊ̯.xa/ rabbit, is underived or related to any other words (for now).

Raila në chauha si akkalo.
fox TOP rabbit ACC capture.PFV
The fox caught a rabbit.

Chauhur në nihwa vë manur kwatu së si sano.
chauh-ur në nihwa vë man-ur kwat-u së si san-o
rabbit-PL TOP ISG ATTR vegetable-PL all-PL also ACC eat-PFV
The rabbits ate all of my vegetables.

I'm using the low-control first person pronoun (nihwa) here for obvious reasons. The construction of N + Quantifier + së is a partitive quantifier construction, here "all of my Ns."
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