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[Jimm G GoodTracks]

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:37:56 +0200 (MET DST) David Rood
<Rood at Uni-Koeln.DE> writes:
>
>	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
>
>

For whatever it's worth, I've heard the same "raji(wi)/ you've come (pl)"
among the older generation Ioway-Otoes.
Jimm