Tutelo-Saponi Words

[David Kaufman]

Hi Scott,

The Biloxi word for "from" is kyąhe, but I don't have many examples off-hand
of its use other than:

kyąheyą kudi, He comes from the same place (DS 217), which seems to break
down to
kyąhe-yą
from-there
ku-di
come-ASSERT (assertive).

Best I can tell right now, your sentences would be, in Biloxi:

ani kyąhe ku-(di)
water from come-(ASSERT)

ani-tka įcya (or) ani ąyaa įcya
water-in old.man (or) water person old.man
(-tka is suffixed version of itka)

ąyaa-thi-yą kyąhe ku-(di)
people-house-DEF from come-(ASSERT)

Hope this might help.

Dave


On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am attempting to figure out what the words are in Tutelo-Saponi for the
> following:
>
> of
>
> from
>
> came or came from
>
> Examples of usage would be:
> He *came from* the water.
> Old man *of the* water.
> She *came from* the house *of the* people.
>
>
> Scott P. Collins
>



-- 
David Kaufman, Ph.C.
University of Kansas
Linguistic Anthropology
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