Blackfoot Wh-words enquiry

[shokooh Ingham]

Thanks Heike,
This is all very useful.  Was there one for 'how, in
what manner' like Lakota tokhel ?
Bruce
--- Heike Bödeker <heike.boedeker at netcologne.de>
wrote:

> Dear Bruce,
> 
> > Did you have the words for 'when'
> 
> Yes, they were included. This one is a preverb:
> 
> >> (i)máak- (Piikani (i)máo'k-) "why?"
> 
> > and 'why' ?
> 
> This is a combination with a verb. Whereby actually
> I'm wondering 
> whether this one might simply be waanisttsi- (AI)
> "do" rather than 
> something so highly specialized as to mean "be ...
> time" -? (The w- 
> drop is regular, and also the quantity might have be
> difficult to 
> hear.)
> 
> >> tsá anistsii- "be what time? be when?"
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Heike
> 



		
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