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porxo
a word from vocabulary
Gawwada
by
Mauro Tosco
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Word form
porxo
LWT meaning(s)
the embers
Word meaning
embers
Grammatical info
Collective; Singulative porxitakko
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
No information [3] (-3000–2007)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
4. very little evidence for borrowing
Comments
The presence of /x/ in Gawwada suggests a direction of borrowing from Dullay to Konsoid. This seems confirmed by Ts’amakko borxo (Savà 2005: 223)
Source words
poroo-D-a
'ember(s)'
Konso
Effect
No information
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Longstanding mutual areal contact with Konso [3]
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