Lakota wa- 'variety object'

[Louis Garcia]

Hi gang:
I will let you linguists battle it out.
I will stay with William K. Powers explanation.
Wa is a noun marker.
Examples:
Wapes'a =not red hair but a roach headdress.
Wahminake = not something in the wait belt but a bunch of braided grass or
later the Crow Bustle.
Waanatan =not some one who is rushing forward but Chief Charger of the
Sisseton's (he was half Yanktonai and half Sisseton, he stayed with his
mothers people)
Later,
Louie