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Although not a Siouan language, in the distantly related Catawban language, Catawba, any part of speech may be turned into a verb form by adding a modal suffix. Typically, it is the independent (or indicative) modal suffix -re: that is used, but there are also examples of verbalization involving other modal suffixes, in particular the interrogative modal -ne. Thus, one finds kiN 'the', k'iNre: 'it is the one', k'iNne 'is it the one?'; h'i:ya: 'that (yonder), hi:y'a:re: ' it is out of sight'; n'aNpari 'two', n'aNparire: 'there are two (of them)'; ar'i: 'true', ar'i:re: 'it is true'; de: 'I (emphatic)', d'e:re: 'it is I'; w'i:ba: 'barred owl', wi:b'a:re: 'it is (the/a) barred owl'.<BR>
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Blair <BR>
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