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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Oops. The OP imperatives occur with the a-grade of the ablaut vowel. <BR> <BR>dhatha'=a 'eat (woman speaking)!'<BR>daNba'=ga 'see (man speaking)!'<BR> <BR>(Thanks for catching this, Rory!)<br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 19:41:05 -0700<br>From: jekoontz@MSN.COM<br>Subject: Re: Aho! (-ka in IO imperative forms)<br>To: SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr">FWIW, the Omaha-Ponca imperative is ga (male) ~ a (female). It occurs with the e-grade of ablaut. <br><br>wadhathe ga hau 'eat!' <br><br>At least for Dorsey the Otoe and Omaha-Ponca sources were intermarried to some extent. Hamilton worked with both communities, though I thought it was at different locations. Jimm would know in detail! <br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling"><span style="color: black;">Second is that the ending imperative “re” may actually be a contraction of an older form “kare/gare” and it has just stopped being used. That one is just a random guess LOL.</span><div class="ecxWordSection1"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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