Lakota wa- 'variety object'

[REGINA PUSTET]

I looked for additional examples of wawe'- and turned up:

wawe'xaxa=i 'they are laughers at them' (they scorn various things about
people?)
< i'xa 'to laugh at'

wawe'dhigdhaN=i 'rulers' (those who decide [various things?] for people)
< i'dhigdhaN 'to decide for someone'

wawe'k[k]it[t]at[t]a 'a deceiver' (he cheats people [in various ways?])
< i'k[k]it[t]e 'to cheat'

It seems particularly significant that two of the three examples involve
reduplication. However, all of these examples involve at least an
implicit 'them', also marked with wa- in Dhegiha.
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That's interesting because in Lakota, wa- seems to have inanimate reference only. So OP wa- seems to have developed differently, semantically speaking, than Lakota wa-. (Which of course leaves the chicken-and-egg question open).

Regina



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