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Missing subset and comment for *qulun₂ #13

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xrotwang opened this issue Dec 15, 2024 · 0 comments
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Missing subset and comment for *qulun₂ #13

xrotwang opened this issue Dec 15, 2024 · 0 comments
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Parsing failed for one subset and the comment for *qulun₂ 'rest the head on':

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POC     *quluŋ-an rest the head on; wooden headrest
    OC
    Titan	ul-uluŋ	pillow
    Seimat	ul-uluŋ	rest the head
    Bugotu	uluŋ-a	a pillow; to pillow the head
    Nggela	uluŋ-a	rest one's head on; a headrest of wood, pillow (modern)
    Sa'a	uluŋ-e	to pillow, to serve as a pillow
    Ulawa	uluŋ-a	to pillow, to serve as a pillow
    Pohnpeian	ul-uhl	pillow; small hill; use a pillow
     	uluŋ	use a pillow (trans.)
    Chuukese	wúún	pillow, headrest
 	wúnna-n	his pillow
    Puluwat	wúlúŋ	possessive classifier for pillows
 	wúlúúl	pillow
    Mota	uluŋ-a	pillow
    Niue	uluŋ-a	pillow, headrest
    Tuvaluan	uluŋ-a	pillow
    Nukuoro	uluŋ-a	pillow; lie with one's head on a pillow
    Rennellese	ʔuguŋ-a	wooden headrest; pillow (it was taboo to sit on either headrest or pillow even in 1972)
    Maori	uruŋ-a	pillow
    Hawaiian	uluna	pillow, cushion, formerly made of pandanus

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NOTE:   Also Lau uruŋa ‘wooden prop for the head, pillow (modern); to prop the head’, Mota iliŋa ‘headrest or pillow; to rest the head’, Kapingamarangi uluŋi ‘pillow; cushion one's head on, lean on’. The similarity of the WMP and OC forms was noted by Milke (1968) who, however, did not comment on the irregular correspondence of the stem-final nasals. Alternatively we could reconstruct WMP *qulun/qulun-an, POc *quluŋa, and treat the two sets as unrelated. Given their detailed agreement in every respect apart from the discrepant nasals this does not appear to be the optimal solution, and is rejected here despite the resulting irregularity. It is possible that both *qulun and *quluŋ-an contain *qulu ‘head’, but if so the morphology remains obscure.
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