OP /the/ vs. /dhaN/ (fwd)

[R. Rankin]

> 'Nostrils', unfortunately, are a set.

Is it possible that there are traces of a DUAL in some of these forms?  Things
like 'hands, feet, eyes, ears, etc.' that come in pairs are a good place to look
for such morphology.  Turkish, for example, is reputed to have special
morphology for bodypart pairs.  Quapaw, as documented by Dorsey, had a dual
category among its deictic clusters in addition to singular and plural.  I never
ran across it in any other Dhegiha dialect, but that doesn't mean it isn't
there.

> I think that Bob recently said that forms like *naNaNp-e were originally
> 'right hand'.

Not me.  *$a:ke was Proto-Siouan 'hand', while the nape word is strictly MVS.  I
don't know if there is any known vocabulary for "handedness" or not.

Bob