<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 01/14/2003 10:08:59 AM Mountain Standard Time, John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Randy, what's the structure of aasu'ua? To my admittedly untutored eye,<BR>
it looks like a plural. I'm wondering if the stems are both related to<BR>
*hti. I know *(h)t is s before a. What about u?<BR>
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JEK<BR>
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The plural of aasu'ua is aasu'uo, so it's clear that aasu'ua is a singular form, at least synchronically. It's possible that this stem is derived from *hti, but if it is, the process must have been fairly complicated.<BR>
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Randy</FONT></HTML>