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Re: [ceqli] to tri balu plufwa


On Jan 29, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Jim Henry wrote:


It was a typo for "besali", but I think

it should have been "posali" or "danho".

(Come to think of it, why not replace

"sali" with "podanho"?)


I have sali for 'leave,' reversed to sila for 'arrive.'   I see what you mean, but I think of sali as having a more general meaning somehow than podanho does.  I think it has possibilities as a prefix, somhow.  This deserves more thought.

go danho dom.  I enter the house.
go podanho dom.  I exit the house.
go sali dom.  I leave the house.
go sila dom.  I arrive at the house.

We need danho, surho, etc.  If there's an equivalent to sila, it would be staho.

Come to think of it, you could say:

go pa sila to dom, tcofu go danho deo.

Sila and sali both seem to imply traveling.   You go out of a house and just stand there, maybe, but if you leave a house it sounds like you're going somewhere.

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