A little more haplology.

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Jan 14 17:04:09 UTC 2003


On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> The Crow cognate ashi' never occurs with the possessive prefix.  If you want
> to say 'his house' or 'his lodge' you use aasu'ua 'house, home' which is
> inalienably possessed.  Ashi' also occurs as a verb 'to dwell'.

Randy, what's the structure of aasu'ua?  To my admittedly untutored eye,
it looks like a plural.  I'm wondering if the stems are both related to
*hti.  I know *(h)t is s before a.  What about u?

JEK



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