1st person wa- vs. other wa-'s in Siouan.

[Koontz John E]

Koontz > > It's *thiwu, ...
Rankin > I'd say *rhi_?u.

I think Bob realized I meant a first person by the w here, and the *th and
*rh are to some extent notational variants, but just in case it's not
clear to others, I do agree with his *rhi_?u (or maybe *_rhi=_?u).

Because the "X-stem" notation is probably somewhat obscure to some folks,
this implies a paradigm something like:

PS                                  Da (old)

1st  person *  wa-rhi=w-?u          wa-hi-b-u
2nd  person *  ya-rhi=y-?u          ya-hi-l-u
3rd  person *     rhi=  ?u             hi- yu
Inc. person *waNk=rhi=  ?u          uN-hi- yu(=pi)

I'm not sure I have the inclusive here in the form Bob prefers, and I
think the ? may be a bit of an epenthetic ghost myself.  It should perhaps
have deleted or leaped to the end of the stem in the 1st and 2nd persons.

The leading regular inflection in Dakotan may be a reintrodution following
a period in which the leading inflection had been lost.  The modern
pattern is an invariant hiyu, inflected regularly.

One big caveat:  it's not clear that this particular pattern of
compounding was used in PS.  The PS form is really just a statement about
the inflection patterns of *rhi and *?u, plus the comment that the Dakotan
form hiyu derives from a compound of *rhi and *?u.

JEK