wakhan in nominal position

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

This must be the origin of Lakota  was^os^e 'brave warrior' whci I
think Buechel glosses as 'an old word'.

Bruce

On 5 Jun 2002, at 10:37, Koontz John E wrote:
There
> is also a class of stative verbs in wa-, e.g., wa..khe'ga 'be sick' and
> wa..s^u's^e 'be brave, generous':  aNwa(N)'s^us^e 'I am generous' (bad
> form to say), wadhi's^us^e 'you are generous', etc.
>
>
> JEK
>