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[rlarson at unlnotes01.unl.edu]

> 'wear' and 'carry' are certainly related in lots of
> languages.  My only problem is with the putative Siouan
> derivation.  There are lots of KI's in MVS, but I'm not
> crazy about the semantics of *k- here without parallel
> cases.  If we're saying it's derivation, then maybe it
> will be possible to find other cases without stretching
> meanings too much.
>
> Bob

Alright, so concretely, how should we approach this?
Are you saying that we should look for other MVS verb
pairs of { *?V- | *k?V- } to see if they seem
semantically related?  If so, do we have enough such
pairs to produce a reasonable database?

Rory