summary adpositional uses eye response query languages body part terms become adpositions anybody know examples eye gives rise kind locative front received several useful replies many thanks transpires numerous languages indeed specifics follow alice faber faber lenny haskins yale edu biblical hebrew _ b ene _ schwa ayin front literally eyes sure transparent would jose alvarez pipo jalvar conicit jalvar luz guajiro arawakan language spoken 300000 people venezuela colombia u inalienable noun meaning eye also used locative temporal adposition jo u siki lit eye fire tr fire jo u wanee ka lit eye one day tr one day omit numerous examples generously provided dr alvarez summary chris culy culy csli stanford edu bambara mande donno dogon least close looking use eye together general postposition front examples real orthography provide well bambara adama nye fe adama eye front adama donno anta giru ne anta eye front anta gabor gyori gyorig btk jpte hu hungarian szemben opposite e g hazzal szemben opposite house szem eye ben haz house val assimilated zal annette herskovits hersko bambam wellesley edu referring papers penelope brown steve levinson tzeltal mentions use _ sit _ eye locative recall specific meaning willem j de reuse wdereuse ccit arizona edu navajo postpositional stem naal high tone v barred l meaning presence etymologically related naa high tone v eye see young morgan dictionary 1992 also cognates related languages apache also translated front clifford l lutton jr lexes mindspring com suggests following english usages might relevant public eye reality eye beholder satellites keeping eye site eye toward litigation every eye upon see ghetto life ghetto eyes mind eyes something situation hit america eyes minds eyes arab countries take pictures eyeball locate 500 feet edit vms huji ac il mentions rather different usage derived eye modern hebrew eyn lit fromeye means kind nicholas ostler nostler chibcha demon co uk quotes old grammars chibcha muisca delante en presencia pedro ubana upquafihistan aunque el primero dice presencia el segundo dice vista asi dice mupqua fihistan zos machiba ponlo delante de tus ojos llegalo tusojos llega la cosa tus ojos para que la veas gonza lez de pe rez mari stella 1987 diccionario grama tica chibcha ms ano nimo de la biblioteca nacional de colombia biblioteca ezequiel uricoechea 1 bogota instituto caro cuervo p 230 estos tres ultimos se dicen de cosa plana de cosa que propiamente tiene asiento como el aire quesada pacheco miguel 1991 vocabulario mosco 1612 estudios de lingu tica chibcha tomo x 29100 editorial de la universidad de costa rica 38v v sobre fihista fihistaca fihistana na n postposition static location 2nd person singular personal prefix explicit plural marking language uba means face upqua means eye fihista properly means chest commonly used part local periphrasis finally monica macaulay macaulay sage cc purdue edu tells 15 mixtec languages looked usage although interesting see list body part terms used face hand insides heart stomach back human back animal nape head mouth side chest foot buttocks ear waist throat