Nominal Ablaut in Crow

[Rgraczyk at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/14/2001 4:48:10 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
John.Koontz at colorado.edu writes:


> Based on the following, some nouns (in -ii?) form their citation form by
> adding -a?
>
>
That's right; nouns ending in -uu also add -a in the citation form.  The
generalization seems to be that Crow does not like words that end in a high
vowel.  The only exceptions that I can think of are vocative forms, e.g.,
baashi'i 'brother-in-law!', and a few adverbs.

Randy

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