Word for 'prairie'?

[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rory M Larson wrote:
>   ppahe-u-dhoNda-dhoN  (I think it's ppa'he, not pha'he.
>                         Correct, John?)

Yes.  Not sure about the accent.  I'd have to look into udhaNda.  It looks
a bit unusual in form.  Note that the positional articles have
corresponding verbal forms with locatives u and a, though I think dhaN
usually comes out naN in that context:

the  ithe=...dhe
dhaN inoN=...dhe
khe  ihe=...dhe
(The i here is probably not a locative, however.)

I wonder if the form isn't something like ppah(e) udhaN=di-a-dhaN, but my
understanding of linking -a- doesn't explain it here.  Before =di, yes;
after, no.

JEK