Awicakeya le oie kin etc., etc.,

[shokooh Ingham]

Dear Clive
Actually following your second email perhaps
ite-o-wicha-icu is a possibility ie face-in-them-take
although one would expect ite-o-i-wicha-cu, which
could be the origin.  Interesting I have wondered
about this word for years.

Bruce--- Clive Bloomfield <cbloom at ozemail.com.au>
wrote:

> Greetings again friends, On maturer deliberation, I
> perceive that  
> according to my (wobbly) "vanishing-intervocalic
> -w-" hypothesis in  
> "itooicacu", I am also left with an annoying extra
> "-i-", thus  
> nudging my grand theory over a precipice! By my
> computation, (if my  
> assumptions were correct), the word ought to have
> been contracted  
> from an "Urform" :
> "iteooi[w]icacu"==>"iteooi[i]cacu"==>"itooicacu".  
> A bridge too far!?  Q.1 : Can  two "i's" ever
> coalesce into a single  
> syllable? Q.2 : Can intervocalic "-wi-" ever be
> elided/contracted? Oh  
> dear, it would seem that my amateur "slip" is
> showing, so I shall now  
> subside once more into the grateful precincts of
> silence! Wanna,  
> mitakuyepi, oie wan owakahniga owakihi sni kin he un
> nata icat'a  
> mayazan canke ( Le oiyokipiya onayahun nacece!)  ake
> inila mankin kte  
> hci yelo! Toksa ake, Clive  
> B.                                                  
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>           P.S. I  
> know it may possibly seem "un peu bizarre", but if
> anyone were  
> willing (Optative mood!), I would enjoy attempting
> an occasional  
> correspondence in ("loose") Lakota. I can also read
> French, Italian,  
> Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian, and Modern
> Greek, with some  
> competence. I have also learned a fair amount of
> Georgian from B. G.  
> Hewitt's wonderful, (if ever so slightly, but
> endearingly,  
> excentrique) "Georgian : A Learners Grammar,"(1995).
> 
> 



	
	
		
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