Dakota: verbs with 'hill' involved

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Fri Apr 9 23:31:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, "Alfred W. Tüting" wrote:
> _ahaN'_ - to stand on
> ... and, of course, _han/he_ - to stand (of many things of appropriate
> shapes) e.g. (of a restaurant in Rood's examples): "Ka wiglioinazi kin
> hel isakib wanzi HE" (There's one over there, next to the gas station).

Definitely cognate with Omaha-Ponca thaN.  And the corresponding
inanimatge for is the.  PS *th > Da h and OP th.

JEK



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