Quapaw Language: (original) (raw)

sister

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i-taⁿ-ke (itt�̨ke), i-toⁿ-ke (itt�̨ke)

sister, man's elder (RR-Quapaw)

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| My sister is coming pretty soon (your older sister, my will be coming). | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | Speaker - Alice Crawfish Gilmore | | | jhi-taⁿ-ke wi-ta kjhi ta niⁿ-khe (ǰ�ttą́ke w�tta kǰi tta nįkh�) | | | you older sister - my - he, she come back here - will be - he, she sitting, doing that | | | * uses term for �your older sister - **di-taⁿ-ke (ditt�̨ke)**�, would expect �my older sister� | |

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

• i-taⁿ-ke (itt�̨ke), i-toⁿ-ke (itt�̨ke) - sister, man's elder, wi-taⁿ-ke (witt�̨ke) - my elder sister, di-taⁿ-ke (ditt�̨ke) - your elder sister (RR-Quapaw)
• wi-taⁿ-ge (wiʇa�′ge) - my sister (Omaha-JOD)
• i-ʰtoⁿ-ge (�-ṭoⁿ′-ge) - sister, his elder sister, thi-ʰtoⁿ-ge (thi-ṭoⁿ′-ge) - your sister (FL-Osage)
• i-ʰtaⁿ-ke (iʰt�̨ke) - his/her older sister, i.e., the oldest among a group of sisters; not necessarily older than the person referred to by "his" or "her", wi-ʰtaⁿ-ke (wiʰt�̨ke) - my older sister, used when speaker is male or female, my sister, loosely used mutually among unrelated younger and older female speakers to show respect, my wife, lit., "my sister", used to refer to speaker's wife when they have no children and possibly to address her, thi-taⁿ-ke (�iʰt�̨ke) - your older sister, used by anyone speaking to a man or a woman, referring both to a sister older than the addressee and to the oldest of the addressee's sisters, who may not be older than the addressee (CQ-Osage)
• i-taⁿ-ge (itáⁿge) - man's or woman's younger sister, wi-taⁿ-ge (witáⁿge) - my younger sister, yi-taⁿ-ge (yitáⁿge) - your younger sister (Kanza)