Words for 'Snow' and 'Ice' In the Arhuacan Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4559166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl E Anderson (0000-0001-8476-0434, Universidad de La Sabana, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-413 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/676396 |
| OpenAlex | W1997181148 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article focuses on words for ‘snow’ and ‘ice’ in the Arhuacan languages of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia). Specifically, Kogi /nabˈgala/ and Damana /dɨmɨngɨna/ (both ‘ice’), as well as probably Kankuí damöngána ‘snow’, seem to be suffixed forms of a proto-word for ‘snow’ that itself survives directly in Damana /dəm/ and Ika /dʒəN/. Moreover, Ika /dʒwábu/ ‘ice’ is cognate with Kogi /nuˈabi/ ‘snow’, suggesting that this latter form was not borrowed from Spanish nieve, as has been suggested; instead both these words may be suffixed forms of a proto-word for ‘ice’. There are close relationships among these terms within Arhuacan, but they seem largely unrelated to synonymous terms in other Colombian Chibchan languages, which suggests that words for these concepts may have been created or borrowed when Chibchan speakers first arrived in the region of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
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| Highly cited | No |