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Danny Wier wrote at 2004-05-19 21:19:24 (-0500) [...] > > My question: is this an exclusive feature of Dravidian, or can this be found > in other languages (besides Shelta, obviously)? Maybe I should form antonyms > in Tech by reversing the word, so that _bwarg_ 'to make war' becomes _grabw_ > 'to make peace'... Not exactly the same phenomenon (if the phenomenon is even real in Dravidian) but you might find this paper on root-inversion in Salishan interesting. (It's more a matter of cognate terms being reversed versions of each other.) http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan/SALISH.type1.pdf