Abstract
The verbs ci ‘eat’ and shaa ‘drink’ in Hausa appear in dozens of idiomatic expressions, the meanings of which are not immediately recognizable as being related to each other. It is argued here that it is impossible to provide a unitary set of semantic features which will define the meanings of ci and shaa in their basic forms and in the numerous collocations in which they occur. It is proposed that these two verbs are best viewed as complex lexical categories which are radially structured. Their meaning derives from a central prototypical meaning linked to extensions of this prototypical meaning through metaphorical, image schematic, and other semantic projections.
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