For the root p.c.c, whose original meaning concerns explosion, the jealousy-related drifted meaning is only available in the unaccusative hitpocec ‘exploded’ (a), but not in the transitive pocec ‘blew up’ (b), the adjectival passive mefucac ‘blown up’ (c), or the verbal passive pucac ‘was blown up’ (d): a. dan Dan hitpocec explode.3sg.m.pst kše- ra’a when-see.3sg.m.pst … Continue reading pocec →