any more chairs?

[Rory M Larson]

> Rory: Also, the La Flesche Osage dictionary
> conjugates 2s as moN-ni.

> Carolyn: Here, as elsewhere, LF is wrong about there being this n for
second
> person in Osage verbs.  He was surely filling in with his knowledge of
> Omaha.  There are hundreds of problems in the LF dictionary, and quite a
few
> have to do with the form given being Omaha.
> In fact forms like 2s sni and others that LF gives are hilarious to
Osages.
> Carolyn

That may be, but the presence of moN-ni in the La Flesche
Osage dictionary is still relevant to the question of the
inscription.  There is a striking similarity in the mixture
of Omaha with Osage in both works, and it seems very likely
that the party that wrote the inscription was either
La Flesche himself, or someone relying on his dictionary.
In either case, that party would probably be expecting the
2s of /moNdhiN/ to be the form which is listed in that
dictionary.  If so, that would mean that MO-NI is intended
to mean "you walk", even though that may never have been
the real Osage form.

Rory