andative

[Rankin, Robert L]

>Maybe the publisher would prefer something more like Classical Latin,
e.g., ambulative?  Departitive?  I think andative may seem sort of
"barbarous," combining an Italian or Spanish root with Latinate
morphology.  Or is andare attested for Classical Latin?

Don't think it's attested in the classical language.  Romanists have
quibbled for decades about the etymology of SP andar, IT andare, trying to
relate it to FR aller.  It really doesn't relate phonologically.  Ambulare
is the putative source, but Robert Hall reconstructed amDare or the like,
where D was the Greek upper case letter delta. Very creative, but not
satisfying. The problem is getting from the l to the d -- the u drops out
regularly.

I don't have an answer for Wally's query -- Siouanists may indeed just be
out of touch.  Some term is needed.  Does Uralic or NE Caucasian (i.e.,
language families with really, really extensive case systems) have a
satisfactory term that Eurocentric editors would accept?

Bob