Dakotan T-words and there equivalents in Siouan

David Kaufman dvklinguist2003 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 23 22:27:23 UTC 2006


Biloxi is far from being adequately analyzed, but here are the basic equivalents I have for some of those (note that c = ch as in church):
   
  > taku 'what, something" > kawa, kawak
   
  > tuwe/a 'who, someone' > kawa (but note tupeta, whose)

  > tukte 'which' > cidike

  > tuktel 'where, somewhere' > cak, cakaN, cuwa

> tona 'how many, some' > cinani
   
  > tokhel 'how, somehow' > kawakehi ("in what manner")

  Hope this helps.
   
  Dave

goodtracks at peoplepc.com wrote:
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shokooh Ingham" 
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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Dakotan T-words and there equivalents in Siouan


> Dear Siouanists
> I am thinking of what to do in the coming conference
> and would like to look comparatively at the T-words in
> Lakota/ Dakotan and their equivalents in other Siouan
> languages. Caroline has kindly given me the Osage and
> John has given me some hints on Dheghiha. Could I
> ask anyone who has the time to give me the equivalents
> from other Siouan languages of:


Ioway, Otoe-Missouria
? = glottal stop

> taku 'what, something"
dagu'; dagu're (something)

> tuwe/a 'who, someone'
waye're; waye're?sun (someone; somebody; anybody, anyone)

> tukte 'which'
ha'naha; dana'haje

> tuktel 'where, somewhere'
tanda' (where; anywhere, somewhere); tan'?sun, tanda're (somewhere)

> tokhiya 'where to, somewhere'
tanwa', tanda'wa (whereto, whence, whither). Sentence construction can 
ulter considerably the rendering of the idea "to where, where to, at/ to 
somewhere, someplace".

> tohan/l 'when. sometime'
tahe'da (when, whenever); Also suffixes: "-da, -sge".

> tona 'how many, some'
ta'na, tahe'na; to, he, iyan' (some)

> tokhel 'how, somehow'
tunt?un, tunt?un?un;

> tokha 'what happened, something happened'
Da'hga je/ Da'thga je; Dagu'ra je; Hun'ch?eñi
>
> Please send cognates or non-cognates or cognates whose
> meaning has changed.
>
> Hope you can help
> Yours
> Bruce
>
>
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