Dhegiha stuff.

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out.  I have never found anything like this at all
> in Osage speech.  iNks$e is what I find, over and over.  Only a couple of
> occurences of dhiNk$e, if I remember right, but I take the two to be the
> same.

I didn't spot any instances of dhaN in Dorsey's one Osage text, but the
referents are primarily human.  That reduction of dhiNks^e to iNks^e
occurs with dhiNkhe in Omaha-Ponca, too.  I've certainly heard it, and I
think there may even be some examples in the texts.

JEK