Irregular "to eat" in Dakotan

Hu Matthews hu_matthews at sil.org
Sat Sep 15 19:15:52 UTC 2001


       sg           pl
3rd  duush¡k      duus£uk
1st  buush¡k      buus£uk
2nd  dil£shik     dil£suuk

'eat' is irregular also in Crow.
The final k in these forms is the declarative marker.
(In case the accents don't make it through, - in the 1st and 3rd
person, the accent goes on the first vowel of the last syllable; in
the 2nd person it is on the middle syllable.



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