More regarding "wa"

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

Another one like wamakhas^kan 'animal' is wamnitu 'whale'
presumably
 'thing being in the water', also wablus^ka 'insect', 'small thing' possibly
and waglula 'worm' though I can't think of any derivation.
Bruce

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> wa-makha-s^kaN
> WA-earth-move.ITR
> 'animal (i.e. [on-]earth-mover)',
>
> we end up with animate reference for wa- again. Or is there a different way of analyzing this
> form?
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> Regina
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> > Notice that Dhegiha does allow wa with animate reference. I was
> > momentarily taken aback by Regina's comment yesterday that Dakotan wa was
> > necessarily inanimate, because of that. Somehow I had always assumed that
> > wa could have a non-specific animate reference, too. Would a Dakotan
> > nominalization require wic^ha- or something like that if the inspecified
> > argument was animate?
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