On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote: > -ta (citation form -te) is the distributive plural, so isbi'tchiihachite > would mean something like 'the ones with long knives'. Would it be reasonable to have hachka surface as hachki in this context? Do all final elements in -a in nouns become -e in citation forms? For example, would bitchiia?