Archaic A1 p- in Dakotan + apologies.

[David Rood]

Connie is quoting Buechel with complete accuracy, but I think Buechel is
wrong about this.  These forms should, given the sentence examples, be
vertative ("home") forms -- a man is greeting and seeking information from
someone he hasn't seen in a long time and who has been away.  So the
correct substitutions are waku and yaku, not wa?u and ya?u.  I'm pretty
positive that's true for s^ku, because the vertative is the only possible
source I can imagine for the "k" in the Buechel form.  But now I wonder
about the other one, and the fact that Bob tells me I'm right about
Buechel's grammar having "bu" for "wa?u".  Bob, I need a lesson in sound
changes:  you said "bu" is expected for a glottal or vowel initial verb,
so what's expected for a k-initial verb -- maybe phu?  Why not *pku?
And how does this relate to the "say" paradigm, with ephe 'I say" and ehe
'you say'?

And while you're on the subject of "b" in Dakotan, is there an etymology
for "abeya" 'scattered, helter-skelter'?  That "b" never bothered me until
one of the really alert Danish students noticed it last week, to my
embarrassment.  There's always something new to learn, eh?

David


David S. Rood
Professor of LInguistics
Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet zu Koeln
D-50923 Koeln
email: rood at uni-koeln.de
email: rood at colorado.edu


On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Constantine Xmelnitski wrote:

> --- Constantine Xmelnitski <mosind at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Buechel (1980) mentions archaic paradigm for ?u:
> > phu = wa?u (p.449)
> > sku = ya?u [BigHead] (p.465).
>
> With apologies, archaic A2 sing. was actually  s^ku.
>
> For Carolyn Quintero:
> To memorize the 14 Dakotan locomotive verbs I used
> a following figure:
>        THERE
>        -----
>   glic^u'    i'
>     V        ^
>    ku'      yA'
>     V        ^
>    gli'    iya'yA
>        HOME        ---> hiya'yA
>        ----        <--- gliglA'
>    hiyu'    khi
>     V        ^
>     u'      glA
>     V        ^
>    hi'     khiglA
>        HERE
>        ----
> Where HOME is (as in Taylor's article) 'home or
> previous location'; hiyayA and gliglA - verbs of
> movement past the speaker; each direction (here/there,
> home/not home) has three verbs of
> start/process/arrival
> (e.g. iyayA-yA-i).
> You should use a proportional font to view the figure
> properly (like Courier)
>
> Connie
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