Is this a Lakota sentence?

[Jonathan Holmes]

Bruce,
This helps a great deal. Thanks for taking the time with it. Just one question though. Is there much of a difference between the use of oglu and the use of wa'pika for the term "fortune"?
Thanks,
Jonathan 

Bruce Ingham <bi1 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi there
It looks as though it is intended to mean “Little Brother go with good fortune around the world  or all over the world” .  However I don’t know whether it is correct in Lakota or is a translation from another language like English.  MisuN is the vocative use “Oh Little Brother”.  Oglu does mean ‘fortune, luck’, although I have not seen it used often.  Makha Sitomni or Makha sitomniyaN means ‘all over the world’.  The yalo part is slightly odd.  If it means ‘he goes’ one would expect yelo.  If it means “go!”. One would expect yayo or iyayo.
Bruce


On 6/9/05 6:20 am, "Jonathan Holmes" <okibjonathan at yahoo.com> wrote:

Howdy,
 
I have a friend that asked me recently if I could translate the following phrase.
 
Misun oglu waste maka sitomni yalo

It looks like Lakota (primarily because I recognize waste or "good" and maka or "earth" as being Lakota), but the rest I'm not so sure about. Is it perhaps because of mis-spelled words? 
 
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Jonathan

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