A little more haplology.

[Randolph Graczyk]

In a message dated 01/14/2003 10:08:59 AM Mountain Standard Time,
John.Koontz at colorado.edu writes:

> 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
>

The plural of aasu'ua is aasu'uo, so it's clear that aasu'ua is a singular
form, at least synchronically.  It's possible that this stem is derived from
*hti, but if it is, the process must have been fairly complicated.

Randy
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