Words for Loss, Lose and Lost

[Bryan James Gordon]

In the Dorsey texts for Omaha and Ponca, "uxpathe" /uxpaðe/ is "lost", and
for the transitive "lose" there seems to be a choice of using "uxpathe" or
the causative "uxpathethe" /uxpaðe-ðe/.
Bryan


2013/2/25 Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com>

> Thank you Dave, I didn't see that one in the Biloxi dictionary. I must
> have missed it.
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> Scott P. Collins
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> --- On *Sat, 2/23/13, David Kaufman <dvkanth2010 at GMAIL.COM>* wrote:
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> From: David Kaufman <dvkanth2010 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Words for Loss, Lose and Lost
> To: SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu
> Date: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 11:21 AM
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> The Biloxi word for 'lose' is ka-paha-ni-ye: ka- and -ni are the circumfix
> for negation; paha means something like 'sight' or 'appearance'; -ye is the
> causative = something like 'cause to not be in sight' or 'cause to be
> invisible.'
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> Dave
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> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com<http://us.mc1814.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=saponi360@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
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> Hello, I was trying to find the word or words for loss, lose and lost in
> Tutelo-Saponi. ******
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> What would comparative words be in other Dhegiha languages and what would
> be the literal translation of those words? I'm hoping to be able to
> extrapolate the word for loss or lost through comparison unless there is a
> word that is used for loss in Tutelo-Saponi.****
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> I was thinking perhaps "iha:o ki-hiye-nE".****
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> Literally, "no balance". ****
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> lE= go, no= yaha or iha:o, and way = hatkox (path)****
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> lE:yaha:hatkox or lE:yahatkox-se****
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> Could these words figure into gone away (lost, lose)...****
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> Scott P. Collins
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> WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR
>
> Evil Is An Outer Manifestation Of An Inner Struggle
>
> “Men and women become accomplices to those evils they fail to oppose.”
>
> "The greater the denial the greater the awakening."
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> --
> David Kaufman, Ph.C.
> University of Kansas
> Linguistic Anthropology
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University of Arizona
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