Dakota: verbs with 'hill' involved

[Koontz John E]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, "Alfred W. Tüting" wrote:
> If I understand correctly, the O-P cognate of Da _haN'/he'_ is animate?
> This is interesting, since the Da (modern) form is not(at least with
> reference to humans)!
>
> Buechel: "han vn: to stand upright, as of things, to remain, as said of
> grass, arrows that strike the ground and stand; also of cattle etc. that
> remain or stay in a certain locality. < Hel hanpi s^ke. Tatanka optaye
> nunpa he lo There they say is soup. There remain two herds of buffalo>"
>
> With regard to our very topic, it looks like that on an earlier stage
> (historical level) _haN'_ still had been used with animates (->
> agliyahan etc.).

As definite articles thaN is used with animates only, while the is used
with inanimates only.  I'm not quite sure how it fell out that way in
Dhegiha languages, since I don't think that animacy or inanimacy are
primary attributes of the roots.