Scott,<br><br>I don't have my Tutelo material in front of me, but my gut reaction is that your sentence would not be natural to a Siouan-speaker; it appears to be a literal translation of the English. Rather, I think the more natural Siouan way, which hopefully some other Siouanists here could chime in on, would be more like <span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3">chiko:yo oto: </font></span><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">pi</font></font></span> <span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">mi-yato-ste:kE</font></font></span> lit. 'sweetgrass-scent I-love'. Not having the Tutelo dictionary with me, I'm not sure about qekego 'of' (I'm not aware of Siouan having a postposition for 'of') nor am I sure about the definite article prefix i-. (In Biloxi and some other Siouan languages like Lakota and Dhegiha the definite article is after the noun, either suffixed as in Biloxi -yaN or separate as in Lakota kin.)<br>
<br>Is <span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3">chiko:yo <font size="3">'<font size="3">sweet'? (I'm assuming it probably is since it's Biloxi ckuye.) If oto is 'grass' then it seems to me <font size="3">it would be oto: chiko:yo 'sw<font size="3">eetgrass'</font></font></font></font></font></span>, since sweet is the adjective modifying 'grass.' That would then give: <span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3">oto: </font></span><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3">chiko:yo </font></span><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">pi</font></font></span> <span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">mi-yato-ste:kE</font></font></span> lit. 'grass-sweet scent I love.'<br>
<br>I hope this makes sense, and maybe other Siouanists can either verify or correct my analyses....<br><br>Dave<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Scott Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saponi360@yahoo.com" target="_blank">saponi360@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Verb at end of sentence<u></u><u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Adjectives follow nouns<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Adverbs and Direct Objects before the Verb</font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I love the smell of sweetgrass.</font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I = mi (subject/noun)<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Love = yato-ste:kE (verb)<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The = i- (definite article)<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Smell = pi (you can add an infatic such as –se after the word) (adjective)<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Of = qekego (preposition)<u></u><u></u></font></font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sweetgrass = chiko:yo oto: (object/noun)</font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri" size="3"><br><br>My final conjugation:</font></span>
</p><p style="MARGIN:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#333333" lang="EN"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I- pi qekego <span> </span>chiko:yo oto: <span> </span>mi yato-ste:kE. ( I love the smell of sweetgrass.) <span> </span></font></font></span>
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<div>Is this all correct?</div>
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