[Possible SPAM] Re: Aho!

[John Koontz]

I've been sorting through some more of this interesting stuff!   

For what it's worth, OP e=..aN 'to do something' and e=gi=...aN 'to do (something) like someone/thing'  parallel the 'say' verbs in structure.    So their first persons are emaN and egimaN.   The first persons are eaN and egaN.  I do think I recall that the corresponding IO forms have k?uN, not gaN.   Off hand, I don't know of an OP parallel stem with the u-locative prefix.   

How do you explain the aN in kaNre instead of kare?   u...k?uN is 'give'?  

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And in keeping with the idea that perhaps this might be an older thing, I did a quick run through Merrill's First
Ioway Reading Book and in his prayer (Lesson 12, page 13), he has the line:
 
Nl-ce pe of-kon-kl-ra (Nąnje pi uk'ųka
re) - Give me a good heart.
 
(I
 wonder with the possible nasal "f" that Merrill put in there if it is 
supposed to be a contraction of "uhįnk'ų" to become "ųnk'ų" to say "give
me".)
 
So
 here we have another use of "ka" from a source other than Hamilton.  I 
haven't gone through his hymns yet though.  But no clues so far as
I can tell.  However I am noticing "me" being in a few of these but it 
may just be a coincidence.
 
And
 on the off chance that this "ka" might be something that means plural 
(maybe an alternate way to end commands to command more than one person
besides using -wi), I remembered a very odd term from Maximilian's word 
list where he had:
 
guj-n
- we alone
 
To
 date, I have never seen the prefix "gu-" to mean "we" anywhere else.  
And it may not be connected in any way to the "ka/ga" we are talking
about but I thought I'd put it out there.
 
Sky
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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