Obviative/Proximate and the Omaha verb system

[Wablenica]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> [mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of
> voorhis at westman.wave.ca
> > It's sort of challenge to Dakotanists - one they haven't really
> taken up -
> > or to comparative Siouanists in general - likewise - to explain how
> > Dakotan came to be so different.  Why does aN alternate with e?
>
> Just analogy?  yatkaN 'drink' joins the semantically related yuta 'eat'?
>

Here are some -AN verbs with nasal -a that cannot be explained with
"nasalization spread":

-hAN, to stand (and numerous compounds)
yukxAN,  to exist (for)

Plus -mA(N)/-be verbs
-mAN, 1) brood, hatch; -> -me (L.), -be (D.)
	2) file, rub, grind
is^tiNmA, to sleep.
naxmA, to conceal
mimA, circular
s^mA, deep

I have a question: all e-ablaut-triggers begin with (7)e-, k-, s-, or s^-,
with occasional l- (diminutive la). What are the generalizations?

Connie.