Fetch

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The Catawba verbs for fetch consist of a mixed group of stems.  They include
mutating roots and suffixing roots.  They also include mutating instrumentals
and non-mutating proclitics.  Incidentally, Catawba does not show any trace
of noun incorporation.  Also, Catawba has no vertitive. Claudia has cited
forms from various sources in the original transcriptions (typically
phonetic, but phonemic from Siebert).  I provide here phonemicizations for
the phonetic forms.  Although the instrumental prefixes in Catawba mutate
their initial consonant for person and number, they are not full-fledged
verbs.  They are always affixed to another verb root, and cannot occur as the
sole root in a predicate.  For the full inflection of the mutating
instrumentals, you should look at Siebert's 1945 IJAL article.

The analysis of the stems is as follows.

/da:-/ action by foot (mutating instrumental prefix, requires that a verb
root follow; see below.  It is distinct form the verb da:?- go, go on foot)

da:dehude?  (/da:duhu:de:/) bring it back, go fetch (da:- action by foot
[mutating instrumental], du- action by hand [mutating instrumental], hu:-
come [mutating root], -de: imperative mode

/kurada:kanide:/ go (by foot and) look at it (kura- go in a direction
[suffixing root], da:- action foot [mutating instrumental], kan- see
[mutating root], -i- epenthetic vowel, -de: imperative mode.

da:dure:kuNde: (/da:da:re:/ /kuNde:/)go (by foot) give it to me (da:- action
by foot [mutating instrumental], da:- go by foot [mutating root], -re:
indiciative mode; kuN- give [mutating root], -de: imperative mode

hi:da:dehude: (/da:duhu:de:/) go fetch it (I am not sure what the hi: in this
form is.  It may be a left over demonstrative (hi: this) with the preceding
noun omitted) (da:- action by foot [mutating instrumental], du- action by
hand [mutating instrumental], hu:- come [mutating verb], -de: imperative mode


/da:hu:?-/ to fetch, go get (da:- action by foot [mutating instrumental],
hu:?- come [mutating root])

/da:kani?-/ to go by foot and see da:- action foot [mutating instrumental],
kan- see [mutating root], -i- epenthetic vowel, -? momentous aspect

/da:duhu:?-/ to go get, proceed on foot and fetch by hand (da:- action by
foot [mutating instrumental], du- action by hand [mutating instrumental],
hu:?- come [mutating root]

/du-/    action by hand [mutating instrumental]

/du-/   bring (same as preceding)

dugina'heN?,

/dukha:rare:/ bring back (duk- back [proclitic], ha:ra- go, walk, step
[suffixing root], -re: indicative mode

dukhuwa:de:   (/dukkuwa:de:/) bring it back here (duk- back [proclitic],
kuwa:- come, come along, proceed [suffixing root], -de: imperative mode

dukha:dukhure: (/dukha:?/ /dukhu:re:/)   back came back brought (duk- back
[proclitic], ha:- come, arrive [suffixing root], -? participial mode; duk-
back [proclitic], hu:- come [mutating verb], -re: indicative mode

/duhu:re:/ brought (du- action by hand [mutating instrumental], hu:- come,
-re: indicative mode

dugdugra:re:   (/dukdukra:re:/) home back bring (duk- back [proclitic], duk-
Ibid., ra:- go by foot, -re: indicative mode

duhuhne'h   I bring (error for /duhu:ne/ does he bring?)  (du- action by hand
[mutating instrumental], hu:- come, -ne [interrogative mode]

/iyuru:?ire:/   they bring (i- third person plural prefix, yu- action by hand
[mutated for third person plural], ru:- come [mutated for third person
plural], -? momentous aspect, -i- third person plural suffix, -re: indicative
mode

/ima:ru:?ire:/ they bring hither (i- third person plural prefix, ma:- there
[proclitic], ru:- come [mutated for third person plural], -? momentous
aspect, -i- third person plural suffix, -re: indicative mode

wiya: demaN tepeN duhunide (/wiya:/ /demu/ /depeN/ /duhanide:/) thread me one
bring (wiya: string [noun], demu I myself [independent pronoun], depeN one
[numeral], du- action by hand [mutating instrumental], hani- give, -de:
imperative mode

/duhu:?/  carry in the hand (du- action by hand [mutating instrumental], hu:-
come [mutating root], -? participial mode

/duc^u:?/ to chop by hand, arm (du- action by hand [mutating instrumental],
c^u:- chop [suffixing root], -? participial mode

/da:duhu:?-/ to go get, proceed on foot and fetch by hand (da:- action by
foot, du- action by hand, hu:- come, -? participial mode)

/duhaNna:?-/ to hold under the arm (du- action by hand, haNna:- hold
[suffixing root], -? participial mode.