<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">In a message dated 4/21/2004 2:42:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time, jschudli@indiana.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"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">always liked the way Crow handled such "new things" - I don't remember the <BR>
actual Crow, since this comes from a class Randy taught 5 or 6 years ago, but <BR>
the gist is that many new things, including horses, simply co-opted a name <BR>
that already existed in Crow. <BR>
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So horses are "dogs" and actual canine type dogs are "real dogs". I'm sure <BR>
there are other introduced items that follow the same pattern as well, but I <BR>
can't dredge them up from memory at the moment.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">Crow has both a 'dog' word and an 'elk' word for horse. The non-possessed form for horse is iichi'ili, which is the original word for elk, as illustrated by compounds like iichi'il-ihta 'elk tooth'. The possessed form is isaashka' 'his horse', the original possessed form for dog. The possessed form for dog today is isaashka-kaa'shi (kaa'shi is a suffix meaning 'real, genuine')<BR>
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Randy<BR>
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