Lakota question

[REGINA PUSTET]

It means 'what's your name'.

taku  e-ni-ci-ya-pi  huwo?
what  say-2SG.PAT-to-say-PL  question(male speaker)

What is glossed as say-say are the two syllables of
eya 'to say', a verb that takes infixes. ci- does not
normally mean 'to', it is a fossilized benefactive
marker. So the literal translation is 'what do they
say to you?'.

Regina

 
--- Jonathan Holmes <okibjonathan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> How would you interpret the translation for this
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