Algonquian Parallel? Muskogean Parallel?

[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Pamela Munro wrote:
> I hope we aren't getting to parochially Muskogean here....

No problem for me.  I think the sorts of considerations applied are
potentially parallel enough to be relevant.

Incidentally, there isn't a Muskogean list, is there?

> C. Despite the fact that we don't see a- as a 1sg prefix except in the
> III+dative markers within the strict domain of agreement, there is one other
> environment where this appears -- fossilized vocatives of a few kinship
> terms, such as a-ppo'si' 'granny'. (Otherwise we'd expect II here, e.g.
> sa-ppo'si' 'my grandmother'.)

For what it's worth, in Omaha-Ponca, and to an extent I don't recall
precisely in other Dhegiha languages, a couple of kinship terms seem to
have the dative version of Pat1 for the first person possessive:

iNdadi      'my father'    stem -dadi
dhiadi      'your father'  stem -adi
idhadi      'his father'   stem -adi
dadi=ha(u)  'o father'     stem -dadi

Compare 'mothere's brother' with the usual possessives:

winegi      'my mo bro'    stem -negi
dhinegi     'your mo bro'
inegi       'his mo bro'
negi=hau(u) 'o mo bro'

'Mother' works somewhat like 'father', including the suppletion.

A possible fossil of this is iNs^?age 'elder (male)'.