Santee irregular verb.

[Erik D Gooding]

THis is from Riggs' "Grammar" p. 30. He doesn't include the first person
form. My suggestion would be mdakhuN. Just a suggestion.

Erik



On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Robert L. Rankin wrote:

>
> I was prowling through Boas and Deloria's _Dakota Grammar_ (always a
> profitable passtime for a Siouanist) and ran across a partial conjugation
> for the compound verb /yakhuN/ < {yakha+'uN} 'to be' in Santee on p. 98.
>
> 2sg	dakhA-nuN
> incl.	'uN-yak-'uN-pi (f.n. 22)
>
> Does anyone know the 1st person form of this verb?  I would guess
> /b-dakha-muN/, but I'd like to confirm it.
>
> Bob
>