Stem 'to come' (was Re: Archaic A1 p- in Dakotan)
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at Colorado.EDU
Sun Apr 4 10:09:48 UTC 1999
> This is fun. I had at first assumed that Buechel had just gotten parts of
> two different verbs, hu (?u) 'come' and ku 'come.vert', but now I'm not so
> sure. There's still a lot I don't understand about the details of Dakotan
> sound changes, esp. in these paradigms.
There are a couple of little things that make me wonder if the stem for
'to come' (or 'to be en route hither') might not be PS *u (or *?u) instead
of *hu.
- Dakota inflects it as bu, lu, (y)u in that hi=yu compound.
- All MV languages have a vertitive form in *k, not *kh, cf., OP gi, Da
ku, Wi guu. Of course Wi guu could be from *khuu or *kuu, but then it
wouldn't inflect as a *k-stem, which it does.
- OP seems to have i, not hi. The proximate is ai, which could represent
loss of h between vowels, and the first and second persons phi and s^i
certainly have hi, but the stem is just i. I'm not sure of the inclusive.
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