Obviative/Proximate and the Omaha verb system
Rankin, Robert L
rankin at ku.edu
Fri Aug 31 15:53:11 UTC 2001
I wrote a longish reply to Connie's post but it went away into cyberspace
before I could send it. I'll try to find it....
> Here are some -AN verbs with nasal -a that cannot be explained with
> "nasalization spread":
And, of course, nasalization spread could fairly be argued to have had a
crucial part in producing AN.
> -hAN, to stand (and numerous compounds)
>This one may be related to the OP thaN 'the (standing)' animate
Yes, *rVhaN > Dhegiha thaN, Dakotan haN, Winnebago jaN, etc. regularly. And
there is the verb *haN-ke, presumably the source of the haN part of *rV-haN.
>...one could imagine *thaN=he contracting to *the.
Right now, I'd stick with two separate etymologies for the animate/inanimate
pair.
> yukxAN, to exist (for)
> Cf. Biloxi and Tutelo /yuke'/ 'auxiliary'. But there are problems with the
y/y equation.
>There's a thaN 'have; be plentiful at' stem in OP.
bob
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