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The cardinal directions (or at least some of them) are semantically charged in Indo-European, too. Latin auster 'south' shares a root with dexter 'right' - because when you pray to the sun at dawn, the south is on your right. This isn't too far removed from the Dagestani example, no?

(From my reading, it's not clear if the Indian church actually existed in the 4th century... but it does seem that the Greek church thought it did, which is all that's needed here.) Certainly a lot of modern Indian Christians claim that the church has been around since the 4th century... Since the ...

Raphael wrote:Deleted the silly OT diversions.

There were diversions on Optimality Theory? Damn, I missed them.

zompist wrote:(From my reading, it's not clear if the Indian church actually existed in the 4th century... but it does seem that the Greek church thought it did, which is all that's needed here.)

Certainly a lot of modern Indian Christians claim that the church has been around since the 4th century...

Before moving to Korea in 1997, I was learning the language, and became a bit paranoid about inadvertantly insulting people by mixing up the honorific and plain forms of the verbs. I decided that I'd learn only the honorific forms, and use them at all times, figuring that it would be better to be to...

I have a question about triconsonantal root systems that's been bugging me for some time. Let's say that there are two roots, K-R-S and R-S-T. Now let's posit the word karasata , and assume that ka- and -ta are valid affixes. Reminds me of what happened when Swahili borrowed the word kitab "book" f...

They can write in any number of ways-- most picturesquely, by having coral grow or luminous plankton swim into position; most permanently, by carving into stone, protected with a sort of waterproof resin. Their books are made of a plasticlike substance. Interesting! I assume the stone carving came ...

Fascinating! I believe M.A.R. Barker's Tekumel incorporates a similarly uninhabitable equatorial region. To think that it might have existed here on Earth after all...

Silly me. Just realized that the directionality comes from the verbs, rich and ruch. I realized that last night, of course, because I had to coin rich using the featural continua; but today my brain seems to be on vacation. Sorry.

- Nk?ndaj

Many thanks! Nk?ndaj it is!

- Nk?ndaj

If I may ask a further question, how do you get the directionalities in this phrase - up a hill but down a mountain - in Elkaril, if you use til- in both PPs?

A movie title in Elkar?l:

"On Engel dda ruch q?l-sh?ph?t p-rich q?l-j?ph?t add"

Sorry, Mark: I hope I didn't sound as if I was making a demand. Wasn't meant as such.

Thank you very much. Incidentally, would nk?ndur?l then mean "victorious people"?

Nicholas (hence my interest in this word)

How did the Ilii ever discover books in the first place, living under the ocean?

Yes, neither of those really seems to lend itself to the problem. Thanks for making the effort, though! How do I ask Zompist? Just put his name in the subject line?

Or "victory" for that matter? I can't seem to find either in the lexicon.

Debegduk