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[[preprinted]] PERMANENT ADDRESS: [[line]] Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Media, Penna. PRESENT ADDRESS: [[line]] [[line for date]] 189 [[/preprinted]] [[underlined]] 2 [[/underlined]] thrown into the absolute or intransitive (abstract) form by the prefix [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]]. I can, however, give no reason for assuming this monosyllabic root for the dissylable [[underlined]] Konza [[/underlined]], except that -z[[underlined]] a [[/underlined]] seems a very common termination to indefinite verbal forms, & hence is likely to be an inseparable suffix. As to [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]] I am not sure that it is the intransitive prefix, though by analogy we might think so. It recurs in the epithet of the supernatural in Hidatsa as a prefix [[underlined]] ma hopa [[/underlined]] ([[underlined]] ma [[/underlined]] = [[underlined]] wa [[/underlined]] ). (Matthews, Hidatsa vocabulary) in which dialect it is not an intransitive
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The Hidatsa are a Siouan people.