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[David Rood]

	Two comments.  First, greetings don't seem to be important to many
of the people I've talked to.  In Wichita you can say either acs
tisa:khir7i 'it's a good day' or 'e*:si:rasi:ci*is', literally 'how are
you' -- but both are considered kind of awkward.
	Violet tells me her preferred greeting in Lakhota is "wahi" 'I
have arrived'.  If the other person sees you first, that person can say
instead "yahi", 'you have arrived'.  That seems to match some of the
things some of the others of you have been saying (and of course takes us
back to the motion verb discussion by another route....)
	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