A little more haplology.
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Jan 14 17:04:09 UTC 2003
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> The Crow cognate ashi' never occurs with the possessive prefix. If you want
> to say 'his house' or 'his lodge' you use aasu'ua 'house, home' which is
> inalienably possessed. Ashi' also occurs as a verb 'to dwell'.
Randy, what's the structure of aasu'ua? To my admittedly untutored eye,
it looks like a plural. I'm wondering if the stems are both related to
*hti. I know *(h)t is s before a. What about u?
JEK
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