Causative with P12 in Osage (RE: WA- once more.)

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Koontz John E wrote:
> I'll have to see if I can turn up some examples of the right category in
> the Dorsey or LaFlesche ritual texts.

I found "ni a-dsi wa-kshi tha" 'permit us to cross this water', for which
I tentatively offer:

niN   aci  wa-ks^idha
water ???  cause us

This lacks the extra a- of a-wa- in the same way that it is missing in the
speech of the contemporary Osage speakers with whom Carolyn has worked.

I'm not sure the osrit* files in the Siouan Archives are the whole set of
LaFlesche Osage ritual texts, but this is almost the only example of 'us'
in them.

The 'aci' form might be a locative, with =cu (~ =ci?) 'in'.  In any event
it seems that the gloss LaFlesche offers is far from literal here.

Osage has ks^ for kh before i.  I'm fairly certain of the causative, in
spite of LaFlesche's word boundary between ks^i and dha.