HAVE PITY

[Iren Hartmann]

Jimm,

 

I'm currently working on the HocakLex. Some of these old Radin forms you found are not quite complete. There are two different forms of this verb in Hocank: naac hoja & naac hiroja, the former, however, seems to be the more frequently used one. It is inflected as follows:

 

       
      
     singular
     plural
     
      1st person Actor
     exclusive
     naac waaja

      /naac ho<ha>ja/
     naac waajawi

      /naac ho<ha>ja-wi/ 
     
      inclusive
     naac huuja 

      /naac hi-hoja/ (dual)
     naac huujawi

      /naac hi-hoja-wi/
     
      2nd person Actor
      
     naac horaja 

      /naac ho<ra>ja/
     naac horajawi

      /naac ho<ra>ja-wi/
     
      3rd person Actor
      
     naac hooja
     naac hoojaire 

      naac hooja-ire
     

 

       
      
     singular
     plural
     
      1st person Undergoer
     exclusive
     naac huuja

      /naac ho<hi>ja/
     naac huujawi

      /naac ho<hi>ja-wi/
     
      inclusive
     naac waagoja 

      /naac waaga-hoja/ (dual)
     naac waagojawi 

      /naac waaga-hoja-wi/
     
      2nd person Undergoer
      
     naac honija 

      /naac ho<ni>ja/
     naac honijawi

      /naac ho<ni>ja-wi/
     
      3rd person Undergoer
      
     naac hooja 
     naac wooja

      /naac wa-hoja/
     

 

The following sentences were found in the example database and text corpus:

 

Naac wowaaja.

/naac wa-ho<ha>ja/

OBJ.3PL-<1E.A>take.pity.on

'I blessed them.'

 

Naac horakija?

/ naac_ho<ra-kii>ja/

<2.A-RFL>take.pity.on

'Did you feel sorry for yourself?'

 

Naac huugijaiine.

/naac_ho<hi-gi>ja-ire/

<1E.U-APPL.BEN>take.pity.on-SBJ.3PL

'They took pity on me/blessed me.'

 

Zige naac    huunagijawi

/zige       naac_ ho<hi-ra-gi>ja-wi  /

again      <1E.U-2.A-APPL.BEN>take.pity.on-PL 

'You blessed us again.'

 

Naac wooragijagi niigíta.

/naac_wa-ho<ra-gi>ja-gi                                                 nii-gita/

OBJ.3PL-<2.A-APPL.BEN>take.pity.on-TOP             1&2-ask.from

'I ask you to bless them.'

 

If it were Hocank, I would interpret the form [nat^+(hin)+udán +wi] as either 1st plural inclusive actor = 'we (incl) take pity on him' or as a 1st person exclusive undergoer plural = 'S/he takes pity on us'.

However, it looks like Ioway-Otoe inflects this verb differently. The 1st person actor (inclusive?) inflection seems to be prefixed to natc (as in: [hínnat^údanwi]), whereas in Hocank it is prefixed to hoja.



Maybe the complete list of Hocank forms is of help to you anyway?



Best,

Iren
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