111 Week 6 Day 2
Today's new material came in the form of example sentences, which we received scrambled and took turns arranging the words and affixes into the correct order.
Nü waahu puku puni.
English: I saw two horses.
- The Bannock dictionary also has wahu two for southern (Variant 4) dialects like Fallon and Walker River.
- Sometimes written in Wycliffe as waʻhoo, but I don't hear a glottal stop when spoken.
- Note that waha two is contracted to wa- and receives the suffix -hu when describing a noun.
- TODO: Confirm the details of how this suffix works
Usu paihu tusadüʻü puni.
English: He sees three black dogs.
- Pyramid Lake Wyfliffe is paehu for this form of three.
- Dialectal difference where Pyramid Lake/Reno has [e] for some [ai] in other dialects? Is there a consistent pattern?
- tuhu black is contracted to tu-.
- TODO: Try to confirm as many details as possible about when these contractions happen, and learn them as necessary/able.
- The -ʻhu suffix, again.
Su nana tühoawaʻi.
English: The man is hunting.
- There's that Pyramid Lake [e] again. The Bannock dictionary has hoawaʻi for hunt, but Pyramid Lake Wycliffe is hoawaeʻe.
- Note the tü- prefix when a verb has an indefinite object.
Su nana ka tühüča hoawaʻi.
English: The man hunts the deer.
Su nana ka tühüča kuma kwati.
English: The man shot the buck.
- kwati shoot
- tühüča kuma buck (male deer)
Su nana ka tühüča kuma pacaʻhu.
English: The man killed the buck.
- -ʻhu verbal suffix for recent past, something that just happened