Awicakeya le oie kin etc., etc.,

[Clive Bloomfield]

Greetings again friends, On maturer deliberation, I perceive that  
according to my (wobbly) "vanishing-intervocalic -w-" hypothesis in  
"itooicacu", I am also left with an annoying extra "-i-", thus  
nudging my grand theory over a precipice! By my computation, (if my  
assumptions were correct), the word ought to have been contracted  
from an "Urform" : "iteooi[w]icacu"==>"iteooi[i]cacu"==>"itooicacu".  
A bridge too far!?  Q.1 : Can  two "i's" ever coalesce into a single  
syllable? Q.2 : Can intervocalic "-wi-" ever be elided/contracted? Oh  
dear, it would seem that my amateur "slip" is showing, so I shall now  
subside once more into the grateful precincts of silence! Wanna,  
mitakuyepi, oie wan owakahniga owakihi sni kin he un nata icat'a  
mayazan canke ( Le oiyokipiya onayahun nacece!)  ake inila mankin kte  
hci yelo! Toksa ake, Clive  
B.                                                                       
                                                                         
                                                               P.S. I  
know it may possibly seem "un peu bizarre", but if anyone were  
willing (Optative mood!), I would enjoy attempting an occasional  
correspondence in ("loose") Lakota. I can also read French, Italian,  
Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and Modern Greek, with some  
competence. I have also learned a fair amount of Georgian from B. G.  
Hewitt's wonderful, (if ever so slightly, but endearingly,  
excentrique) "Georgian : A Learners Grammar,"(1995).