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Gelfand, Michael. 1956. Medicine and Magic of the Mashona. Cape Town, Wynberg and Johannesburg: Juta. Gelfand, Michael. 1959. Shona Ritual with Special References to the Chaminuka Cult. Cape Town, Wynberg and Johannesburg: Juta. Gelfand, Michael. 1964. Witch Doctor: Traditional Medicine Men of Rhodesia. Cape Town, Wynberg and Johannesburg: Juta. Gelfand, Michael. 1965. African Background: The Traditional Culture of the ShonaSpeaking people. Cape Town, Wynberg and Johannesburg: Juta. Gelfand, Michael.

More than Cool Reason. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Langacker, Ronald W. 1990. Concept, Image, and Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Lawler, John. 1990. "Women, men, and bristly things: The phonosemantics of the BRassonance in English," Michigan Working Papers in Linguistics (Winter): 27-38. Leach, Edmund. 1964. ), New Directions in the Study of Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 23-63. Lehrer, Adrienne. 1974. Semantic Fields and Lexical Structure. Amsterdam: North-Hol­ land Publishing.

Table 4: Some Shona Nouns for Chiefs, Mediums, Spirits, Lions, and Related Concepts Class 1/2 (mu-/va-), persons, members of tribesa mudzimu, vadzimu 'lineage spirit(s)'(F) see also, 3/4 muzimu 'thunder' (H) muroyi, varoyi 'evil spirit(s),' 'witch(es)'(L) munhu, vanhu 'person(s)'(H) muvuki 'soothsayer,' 'diviner who uses no special apparatus'(H,G) mutapi, vatapi 'captor'(H), 'assistant to medium'(L) mutongi 'ruler of people'(H) muchingi 'midwife'(H) 38 GARY B. PALMER & DOROTHEA NEAL ARIN Class la/2a (O/va-), relatives, public personalities, associates, personifications ishe, madzishe 'chief(s)'b(H) muchinda 'son of a chief (H) mambo 'paramount chief (H), 'medium'(L) nevanje 'heir to the chiefdom'(H) magondo 'spotted hyena,' 'rags, rubbish'(H) Class 3/4 (mu-/mi-), atmospheric phenomena, long things, some parts of body mudzimu, midzimu 'lineage spirits,' 'shade of ancestor'(F), see also 1/2 mrђea 'air, soul'(F) mweya 'air, breath, vapour, spirit, soul'(H) muti, miti 'tree(s)'(F) musi 'day'(H) Class 5/6 (ri-l ma-)c, persons and things inspiring fear, collections, augmentatives, big size shave, mashave 'spirits of animals or foreigners'(L) svikiro, masvikiro 'spirit medium(s),' 'medium'(H), fr.

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