<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Marker Felt'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; ">> "LochiNpi kiN he iyes^ akhiphapi kta thawat'elyapi na iyoks^ica uNpi
> kiN he e athawat'elyapi s^ni kiN hecha."
> [=As for themselves, they preferred facing hunger, to living in
> sadness (i.e. loneliness) - such were their (feelings) or 'such was
> their situation'.]
> (lit. : they felt willing to face the prospect of hunger, and they
> did not feel a greater willingness to be living in desolation -
> that's the way it was).</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">(Loċinpi kin he iyeṡ aḱip'a pi kta ṫawat'elya pi na iyokiṡica un pi kin he e</span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">aṫawat'elya pi ṡni kin héċa.)</span></font></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Very good examples! Yet, I wouldn't use the English word "felt" in the (more)</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">literal translation because thus diluting your very point:</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">As had been already pointed out earlier here, the Siouan "concept" of "feeling"</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">(of physical or emotional processes/states) obviously has to do with "mind", </span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">"will", "knowledge", rather than "emotion", "sensation", "sense perception".</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Hence, _txawat'elya_ is given as "to be willing (sic!) for anything; desirous</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">to do or suffer" (also cf. _txawat'elkiya_ - to be willing...) B.-M.</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Your other examples seem to fit in this concept, where the verbs _slólkiyA_ -</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">"to know (sic!) one's own" and _kiksuyA_ - "to remember", "to be conscious"(!)</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">are used.</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre;">BTW, I like your reading of a-ṫawat'elyA <- a-waṡte (better than), it's very</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre;">convincing.</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="GentiumAlt" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Alfred</span></font></span></div></span></body></html>