Ablaut (RE: Obviative/Proximate and the Omaha verb system)

[Rgraczyk at aol.com]

In Crow, noun stems ending in i and a have an e-grade that occurs as the
citation form and when the the noun occurs with no further suffixation.
E.g., bili' 'water' (stem), bile' (citation form).  When the definite article
is added to a noun, it is always added to the e-grade, eg, bile'e-sh 'the
water'.  This would support some kind of connection between e-grade and
definiteness.

Randy
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