Fetch

[Koontz John E]

I guess my first question would be, what parts are inflected?  As a
comparativist I'm aware in a general way that a number of the Siouan
branch's instrumental prefixes are full fledged verbs in Catawba, and
hence that these particular instrumentals originate in serial verbs,
whereas others seem to originate in incorporated nouns, but I'm rather
vague on the use of such things in Catawba specifically.  The da:- and du-
elements certainly look like familiar instrumental elements in, e.g.,
Omaha-Ponca, cf. OP naN- 'by foot' and dhi- (< dhu-) 'by hand'.  And I
believe I can recognize at least some of the motion verb roots as cognate,
too, e.g., de and hu, plus there seem to be vertitive k's as well.  What
is the (k)ha: element?  (I'm pretty sure I've benefitted, however,
temporarily, in the past from a discussions of the motion verbs per se
from Blair and/or Paul.  There may be something in the list archives, in
fact.)

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 claudiap at ccppcrafts.com wrote:

> This is some of what we have for Catawba "motion/fetch verbs"
> da:-            action by foot
> da:dehude'	  bring it back, go fetch
> kurada:'kanide: go (by foot and) look at it
> da:dure:kuNde:  go (by foot) give it to me
> hiida:dehude	  go fetch it
> da:huu?-	  to fetch, go get
> da:ka:ni?-	  to go by foot and see
> da:duhuu?-	  to go get, proceed on foot and fetch by hand
> du-	         action by hand
> du	         bring
> dugiina'heN'?,
> duk'ha:'rare	   bring back
> dukhu'wa:de:	   bring it back here
> dukha:'dukhu're: back came back brought
> duhu're	:         brought
> dugdu'gra:re:	  home back bring
> duhuhne'h	  I bring
> iyuruu?ire:	  they bring
> ima:ru'u?ire:	  they bring hither
> wiya: demaN
> tepeN duhunide	  thread me one bring
> duhuu?	         carry in the hand
> duc^uu?	         to chop by hand, arm
> da:duhuu?-	  to go get, proceed on foot and fetch by hand
> duhaNna:?-	  to hold under the arm
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