Go (was Re: Ablaut ...)

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 BARudes at aol.com wrote:
> Paul Voorhis wrote:
> >Catawba da: 'to go', usually held to be cognate with this verb,
> >certainly fits more easily with yA or *rA than with *ree'hE.
>
> I agree.  Incidentally, Catawba da: <go> is underllyingly <ra:>, with
> automatic shift of morphophonemic /r/ to /d/ when word-initial.

As far as I know, Mississippi Valley and Southeastern all suggest *rE.
But Mandan has the abstract stem reh, or re when nothing follows, but reh-
when something relevant does, e.g., the third person singular declarative
reho?s^.  Crow has dEE, but Hidatsa has rEEhE, with the second syllable
manifesting in the plural only.  So Siouan has some evidence for a longer
form.  Perhaps the hE is some additional morpheme or analogical extension
that is shared by Mandan and Hidatsa, which greatly influence each other,
though they are not that closely related.  That is, Crow and Hisatsa are
clearly closely related, and Mandan is at least at a further remove from
them, perhaps belonging with Mississippi Valley.