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Q. fanwë n. “vapour, steam” (Category: Mist, Fog, Haze)

Q. fanwë, n. “vapour, steam” (Category: Mist, Fog, Haze): ᴺQ. !hwestalauca “vapour”; ᴺQ. !hwestalaucata- “to vapourize”

A word for “vapour, steam” in some 1957 notes, derived from the same root √PHAN that is the basis for Q. fanya “cloud” (NM/237).

Reference ✧ NM/237 ✧ “vapour, steam”

Cognates

Derivations

< √PHAN “cover, screen, veil; white, (light white) shape; shape, vision” ✧ NM/237
- < √PHA “exhalations (as mists upon water or steams and the like)” ✧ NM/237

Phonetic Developments

√phan > fanwë

[pʰanwe] > [ɸanwe] > [fanwe]