"WOUND"

[Rgraczyk at aol.com]

This is a late contribution to the 'wound' discussion.  I'm behind on my 
e-mail.

uu' 'shoot, hit target' (uua' is the citation form)
1 b-uu', 2 d-uu', 3 uu', 1pl b-uu'-o 2pl d-uu'-o 3 uu'-o (regular inflection)

Lowie: ma u'-om = baa-uu'-o-m   baa 'indefinite object'; m 'different subject'

akbareacu'packyo hawa'tem ba wu'k 'one of the Cheyenne (headcutters) I shot':
The last word is clearly buu'k 'I shot'.  The ba is a puzzle, since the 
sentence has a lexical object and I wouldn't expect an indefinite here.  One remote 
possibility: uu' is (or was) a doubly-inflecting verb.

u'ak: This is uu'-ak; ak is the same subject marker.

oo'xpi 'wound, shoot at and hit' (citation form oo'xpe)
1 b-oo'xpi 2 d-oox'pi 3 oo'xpi etc.  This is the regular inflection for 
vowel-initial verbs not accented on the first mora.

It could be that oo- is a locative prefix, although these are regularly 
accented on the initial vowel in Crow: a', i', o'.  There are several other 
'shooting' verbs in Crow with initial oo: oo'xeechi 'pierce through by shooting', 
o'oxexawi 'shot up' (stative), and oo'xaxxi 'shoot an arrow or bullet into a 
hole'.  I have wondered if these aren't reflexes of the Siouan 'by shooting' 
instrumental prefix, with the initial consonant lost (Da wo, Wi bo Po mu).

Randy
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