Dakotan 'wakhaN'

[Randolph Graczyk]

In a message dated 06/08/2002 4:54:37 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
rankin at ku.edu writes:


> Is it also possible that the root of 'sacred' was just -hkaN and that the
> wa- nominalized it?
>
> Something similar has happened in Crow, although the forms are not cognate.
>  Hidatsa has xupa'a 'holy, sacred', and Crow has baaxpa'a < baa-x(u)pa'a.
>
Although the Crow form has the baa- prefix, it is a stative verb and not a
noun.

Randy
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