animate wa-

[R. Rankin]

What I was trying to suggest here that probably didn't come through in what I
actually wrote is that WICHA is now "productive" with animate verbs like 'kill'
and WA is non-productive and fossilized in the derived nominals.  Sorry if I
didn't quite make that clear.     Bob

> What
> it is starting to look like to (an amateur Dakotanist like) me, is that wicha-
> is indeed spreading at the expense of wa- in strictly verbal constructions.
But
> wa- is found in the nominalized forms.  (Of course we can still debate whether
> these two WA's are the same or different morphemes.)