✶makwā n. “a hand-full, complete hand with all five fingers”

✶makwā n. “a hand-full, complete hand with all five fingers”

References ✧ PE23/144; VT47/6-7, 11, 18-20

Glosses

• “a hand-full, complete hand with all five fingers” ✧ VT47/7
• “hand” ✧ VT47/19
• “hand-full” ✧ VT47/11

Variations

• makwā ✧ VT47/6; VT47/7; VT47/11; VT47/19; VT47/20; VT47/20; PE23/144 (makwā); VT47/18 (makwā)
• makwa ✧ VT47/7

Related

• makwā as opposed to kambā ✧ VT47/20
• makwā is not from mak “kill, slay‽” ✧ VT47/20
• makwa is derived, with kw substituted for p to differentiate the two labials (according to an older [and incorrect] theory), from MAP “take hold of, grasp” ✧ VT47/7
• makwā variant of‽ mapa ✧ VT47/20

Elements

mā	“hand”	✧ VT47/7
KWA	“complete, full, whole, all, every”	✧ VT47/7 (kwā)

Derivations

• < √MAK “strike; cut, hew with a sharp edge; kill, slay; forge metal” ✧ VT47/19 (MAK)
  • < MAK, [per editors, this derivation was rejected] ✧ VT47/19

Derivatives

• > Q. maqua “hand-full, group of five (similar) things; hand (colloquial); closing or closed [hand] (facing down) for taking” ✧ PE23/144; VT47/6; VT47/7; VT47/19
  • ⇒ Q. Lungumaqua “Heavyhand” ✧ PE23/144
  • ⇒ Q. maquanotië “decimal system”
• > S. mâb “hand” ✧ PE23/144; VT47/6; VT47/7; VT47/19
  • ⇒ ᴺS. ^mablanthos “sycamore”
  • ⇒ ᴺS. ^mabren “handed, having hands, dextrous”
    • ⇒ ᴺS. ^mabrenas “dexterity”
  • ⇒ S. Mablung “Heavy Hand” ✧ VT47/8
• > T. mapa “hand” ✧ PE23/144; VT47/6; VT47/7; VT47/19
  • > T. mapa- “to take hold of, grasp” ✧ VT47/7