Attn: Dhegihanists.

[Rankin, Robert L]

> With the stress and a vowel in the second syllable, I can't say that I
have any ideas.

That's my problem too. I've been favoring "daxpaye" 'to fall from burning'
or 'to lose by burning'. I suppose "maN'-" could be an
incorporated/contracted form of "maNhe" or "maNz^aN" 'earth/land'. The
English term "scorched earth" comes to mind.

> xpadhe, axpadhe, then one could get e + a => a in a
> contraction, cf. OP maNd ugdhiN 'sit in a boat', but in Kaw the underlying
d would still become j^ before the underlying e, right?

Mmmm, probably not. Palatalization usually only remains throughout the
paradigm in the case of the aspirate, /th/ > /ch/. So you do get yache'
'chew' and yachabe 'chew 3sg/pl' rather than the expected *yathabe. But with
yuje 'taste, dip' the 3rd person is yudabe.

Bob