Is this a Lakota sentence?

[Bruce Ingham]

Hi there
It looks as though it is intended to mean ³Little Brother go with good
fortune around the world  or all over the world² .  However I don¹t know
whether it is correct in Lakota or is a translation from another language
like English.  MisuN is the vocative use ³Oh Little Brother².  Oglu does
mean Œfortune, luck¹, although I have not seen it used often.  Makha Sitomni
or Makha sitomniyaN means Œall over the world¹.  The yalo part is slightly
odd.  If it means Œhe goes¹ one would expect yelo.  If it means ³go!². One
would expect yayo or iyayo.
Bruce


On 6/9/05 6:20 am, "Jonathan Holmes" <okibjonathan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>  
> I have a friend that asked me recently if I could translate the following
> phrase.
>  
> Misun oglu waste maka sitomni yalo
>  
> It looks like Lakota (primarily because I recognize waste or "good" and maka
> or "earth" as being Lakota), but the rest I'm not so sure about. Is it perhaps
> because of mis-spelled words?
>  
> Any help or advice would be appreciated.
> Jonathan
> 
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