Lakota question

[Jonathan Holmes]

Thank you for responding so quickly. I appreciate your help.
  Jonathan

REGINA PUSTET <pustetrm at yahoo.com> wrote:
  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 wrote:

> How would you interpret the translation for this
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> Takeniciyapi hwo? 
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