Dakotan 'wakhaN'

[Jimm G GoodTracks]

For what it is worth, I listed -kan as a root for sacred/ holy.  I looked
up Ken Miners lexicon on Winnebago and noticed that he, too, had listed
it in the same manner.
jgt

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:48:46 EDT Rgraczyk at aol.com writes:
> 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