Saturday, December 22, 2018

Lexember 22nd: laucho, "weave"


Today's verb is laucho /ˈlaʊ̯.t͡ʃo/ weave.

Tëkímës si lauchirë.
hat ACC weave.IPFV
I'm weaving a hat.

I've not focused on this much in the Lexember examples, but Kílta can be aggressively PRO-drop, as here.

Mácha në sain si laucho.
spider TOP web ACC weave.PFV
The spider wove its web.

The word laucho can also be used to mean enchant, cast a spell on, with both people and things available as the object.

Inin kíkún aukka si laucho.
and.then coyote wolf ACC enspell.PFV
And then the coyote cast a spell on the wolf.

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 + is a partitive quantifier construction, here "all of my Ns."

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