Dorsey transcriptions, etc.

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jun 22 15:43:54 UTC 2000


Rankin:
> In checking out homophonous particles in the Omaha texts I ran across
>
> s^aN maz^aN dhaN dhaN bdhugaxti 'indeed land indeed all over.'  Both
> dhaN's are accented.  I assume one is the article.

Assuming this might come from the Siouan Archives version of the texts, my
first impulse is to check to see if the second dhaN (<cent sign> a
<raised-n> in the original) might be a mistyped or even misprinted s^aN (c
a <raised n> in the original).  Most such errors are typing errors in
preparing the SA, but I have seen a few in the original, too.

There is, however, a distributive -dhaNdhaN suffix or enclitic!

JEK



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