[Papuanlanguages] 'Eating water' and elsewhere: a summary

[Alexandra Aikhenvald]

Dear John

Thanks so much!

Is the same verb used for 'burning'?

Best

Sasha


Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA
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Subject: Re: [Papuanlanguages] 'Eating water' and elsewhere: a summary

> The existence of a single 'ingest/consume' verb was pointed out for 
> the following languages:


> Kalam (Kalam-Kobon) - Andy Pawley
> Yahang (Torricelli) - Colin Filer
> Ku Waru (East New Guinea Highlands) - Alan Rumsey Duna (Duna-Bogaya) -

> Lila San Roque Kewa (Engan) - Karl Franklin Orokaiva (Binanderean) - 
> Lise Dobrin Korafe Yegha and Tafota Baruga (Binanderean) - Cindi Farr 
> Arapeshan languages (Torricelli) - Lise Dobrin Biangai (Goilalan) - 
> Ngawae Mitio Alamblak (Sepik Hill) - Les Bruce Koromu (Evapia group, 
> Rai Coast, Madang)- Carol Priestley Awiyakay (Arafundi) - Darja 
> Hoenigman

You can add Amele (Madang) to this list. This language also has a single
'ingest/consume' verb. Common uses are to ingest food, water and tobacco
(to smoke). Its cognate is realized in most of the Mabuso languages of
Madang Province. An idiomatic expression literally 'to consume a woman'
means 'to marry a woman'. Amele also has separate lexical means of
expressing 'to be hungry' and 'to be thirsty'.

John Roberts

... observing from afar

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