Initial Comments on C&H

[Jimm G GoodTracks]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:01:56 -0600 (MDT) Koontz John E
<John.Koontz at colorado.edu> writes:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, R. Rankin wrote:
> > JEK wrote:
>
> > > Ooo.  How about my all time favorite [OP] reduplication:
> e=s^e's^e
> > > 'you keep saying'.  I really wish I knew if one could say
> ?e=he'he 'I
> > > keep saying'.  Or how does one say 'he keeps saying'?  aaa=i,
> > > eaa=i (?)
For IOM=  ihe (I'm saying)> ihe hamañi (I keep saying it).

> > David says in print that ephapha, the 1st person reduplicated
> version of 'say'
> > exists.  And shouldn't there be a reduplicated form meaning 'to
> smoke
> > cigarettes iteratively'?  The verb is ?uNpa in Dakotan, so the
> redup. forms
> > should be:
> > 1sg  muM'papa
> > 2sg  nuM'papa
> > 3sg  ?uMpapa
> > 1pl  uNk?uMpapapi
> >
IOM=  napopo (smoke cigarette).  It was explained:  nampo is finger.
hanampopo referrs to the act of smoking/ holding the cigarette.

>
> I've thought about it, but can't get anything to come out
> papauNm(a)uNm(a)uN.  Still, I think Bob has come very close here
> with the
> inclusive form.  If true, this may suggest that words are birds.
Jimm
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