[Papuanlanguages] 'Eating water' and Alan Rumsey's 'further twist; 'burn' and 'sleep' are the same in Korafe and Baruga

[Alan Rumsey]

Hi Jim and Cindy. Good to hear from you. How about 'eat' and 'burn'? Do 
Korafe and Baruga have the same words for them? Regarding 'sleep' and 
'burn', it seems harder to see how there could be a single basic meaning 
that they are contextual variants of.  I notice that you put quotation 
marks around 'same' when describing them as "the 'same' word". Do you 
regard them as such? Could they just be homophones? Is the word the same 
or similar in form in the two languages? If not, that would seem to make 
the homophone interpretation less plausible than if so.

Cheers,
Alan

Jim & Cindi Farr wrote:
> Dear Alan, this twist takes us right away from kaikaim wara, but your 
> mention of burn triggered this response. If it interests you, both 
> Korafe and Baruga have the 'same' word for 'sleep' and 'burn' and if 
> it interests you we probably have data for several other Binandere 
> languages (both the above are Binandere languages). Cheers, Jim Farr
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