Blackfoot Wh-words enquiry

[Heike Bödeker]

Dear Bruce,

> Did you have the words for 'when'

Yes, they were included. This one is a preverb:

>> (i)máak- (Piikani (i)máo'k-) "why?"

> and 'why' ?

This is a combination with a verb. Whereby actually I'm wondering 
whether this one might simply be waanisttsi- (AI) "do" rather than 
something so highly specialized as to mean "be ... time" -? (The w- 
drop is regular, and also the quantity might have be difficult to 
hear.)

>> tsá anistsii- "be what time? be when?"

All the best,

Heike