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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>
>
> More Pulleyblank:
>
> "
> Chinese quan EMC kHwen', Tib. khyi, Burm khwè....Benedict explains
> the final *-n of the Chinese form as a 'collective' suffix, also
> found in min EMC mjin 'people'.
> "
Excuse my obsession: "it [the character for "dog"] is a phonetic in
quan EMC kwen' "watering channels"... This analysis suggests that
*-n may indeed be a suffixed element, though the
alleged 'collective' meaning is not apparent".
Add the prefix *a-, and we have *akWa-, now even with a motive for
loaning it. And what's not semantically apparent with aquae and
apas?
Torsten