How!

[Robert L. Rankin]

> The most common Crow greeting is sho'ota 'how is it, how goes it' which
> contains the Crow equivalent of a wh-word.  An older greeting (still
> heard occasionally) is kahe'e.  Anyone seen anything like this?

Nope.

Quapaw has "hawe':", apparently a women's speech form of "(a)hau".

{he(:?)} by itself is one of the archaic Siouan verbs of being.  It's
reflexes are locative in Dhegiha languages, where it is found only in
compounds with positionals that form continuative auxiliaries and is
conjugated only in the 2nd person, and then only if a V precedes.  The 2nd
person actor allomorph with "H-stems" is $- (=s^).

tha~-he		'be, standing'  2sg ya-tha~-$-e
yi~-he		'be, moving'    2sg ya-yi~-$-e
ni~k-he		'be, sitting'   2sg $-ni~k-he
z^a~k-he	'be, lying'     2gs ya-z^a~k-he

I don't know if this verb is part of the Crow or Quapaw greetings or not.

bob