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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I've been sorting through some more of this interesting stuff! <br><br>For what it's worth, OP e=..aN 'to do something' and e=gi=...aN 'to do (something) like someone/thing' parallel the 'say' verbs in structure. So their first persons are emaN and egimaN. The first persons are eaN and egaN. I do think I recall that the corresponding IO forms have k?uN, not gaN. Off hand, I don't know of an OP parallel stem with the u-locative prefix. <br><br>How do you explain the aN in kaNre instead of kare? u...k?uN is 'give'? <br><br>====<br><div><span lang="en-US"><div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">And in keeping with the idea that perhaps this might be an older thing, I did a quick run through Merrill's </font><font color="#1F497D"><i>First
Ioway Reading Book</i></font><font color="#1F497D"> and in his prayer (Lesson 12, page 13), he has the line:</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Nl-ce pe of-kon-</font><font color="#1F497D"><u>kl</u></font><font color="#1F497D">-ra (N±nje pi uk'ù</font><font color="#1F497D"><u>ka</u></font><font color="#1F497D">
re) - Give me a good heart.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">(I
wonder with the possible nasal "f" that Merrill put in there if it is
supposed to be a contraction of "uhçnk'ù" to become "ùnk'ù" to say "give
me".)</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">So
here we have another use of "ka" from a source other than Hamilton. I
haven't gone through his hymns yet though. But no clues so far as
I can tell. However I am noticing "me" being in a few of these but it
may just be a coincidence.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">And
on the off chance that this "ka" might be something that means plural
(maybe an alternate way to end commands to command more than one person
besides using -wi), I remembered a very odd term from Maximilian's word
list where he had:</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">guj-n</font><img src="" height="17" width="7"><font color="#1F497D">
- we alone</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">To
date, I have never seen the prefix "gu-" to mean "we" anywhere else.
And it may not be connected in any way to the "ka/ga" we are talking
about but I thought I'd put it out there.</font></span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Sky</font></span></font></div></span><hr id="stopSpelling"><div class="ecxWordSection1"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> </div></div> </div></body>
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