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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> I think that portmanteau is common across MVS, though I don’t fully understand the phonology.
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<font size="4">Yes, it's irregular.</font><br>
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> Dick Carter worked it out on the board for me for Lakhota /chi-/ once when he was teaching at UNL in the 1990s. He was pleased with himself, but went so fast he left my head spinning.
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First person <i>*wa</i> is missing in action. Second person <font size="4">*</font><i>yi</i> turns up regularly in Lakota as
<i>chi</i> because PSI *<i><font size="4">y</font></i><font size="4"> becomes aspirated
<i>ch</i> in Lakota. This irregular p<font size="4">ortmanteau is a good part of the evidence for
<font size="4">considering the second person historically *<font size="4"><i>y</i>, not
<i>r- </i><font size="4">Irregular morphology retains the more conservative pronominal.</font></font></font></font></font><br>
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> In Omaha, the corresponding morpheme is /wi(p)/, which again I don’t really understand the derivation of.<br>
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<font size="4">First person <i>*wa</i> plus second person <i>*yi</i> contracts to
<i>wi.</i> And<font size="4">, again, the irregular morphology retains the conservative form -- this time of the 1st person. The
<i>W</i> was lost everywhere else in Dh<font size="4">egiha.</font></font></font><br>
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