any more chairs?

[Carolyn Quintero]

I agree.
Carolyn

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Rory M Larson
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:21 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: any more chairs?

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