Outer instrumentals.

[Randolph Graczyk]

Re: wo- 'by shooting' < wa?o:

Crow has a small set of verbs beginning in oo-:

       o'ottach 'break by shooting'
       oo'xeechi 'pierce through by shooting'
       o'oxexawi 'shot up' (stative)
       oo'xxaxxi 'shoot an arrow or bullet into a hole'
       oo'xpi 'wound, shoot at and hit'    --also--
       uu' 'hit target'

Several of these stems also occur with other instrumental prefixes, e.g.,
alaxxaxxi' 'insert foot into', du'xxaxxi 'insert hand', pa'xxaxxi 'insert'.

It looks to me like Crow has preserved the 'by shooting' instrumental without
wa-.

Randy