Dakota: verbs with 'hill' involved

["Alfred W. Tüting"]

>e'yahAN
they go up a hill and stand on
...
yahaN'
to prick or run into one, as a splinter, thorn etc<<

 >>I quite agree with Rory's insight that these forms involve epenthetic
y between a high vowel and another vowel and his comparison of oxpayA to
OP uxpadhe 'to fall, to drop', i.e., 'to travel downward', a very exact
cognate.
The last verb 'to prick' may be unrelated.  It would help to know its
inflectional pattern.<<<<

I feel like convinced ;-) Thanks a lot!

So _e'yahan_ is composed a+i+ahaN (with _i_ meaning 'to have arrived
there').

_yahan'_ is inflected maya'han, niya'han etc. (Buechel: "Yunkan wicasa
wanzila unkcela wan yahan keyapi" - And then they said a cactus stuck
the man.)

yuN'kxaN - and; also; then
uNh^ce'la - cactus


Alfred