mother, my mother

 

iⁿ-da (įdá)

 
my mother Speaker - Maude Supernaw
   
  Speaker - Mary Lane Redeagle
   
  Speaker - Odestine McWatters

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aunt, older aunt (mother’s side)

 
iⁿ-da  nyoⁿ-hoⁿ  (įdanyó̜hǫ) Speaker - Odestine McWatters
my mother - old, grown up, mature  

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aunt, younger aunt (mother’s side)

 

iⁿ-da  zhi-ka  (įdážika)

Speaker - Odestine McWatters

my mother - young, little

 

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good mother

 
iⁿ-da  ho-taⁿ hi (įdá hóttą hi) Speaker - Maude Supernaw
my mother - good - very  
   

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Mary, Jesus’s mother

 
wa-kaⁿ-ta  e-haⁿ-ko-we-tʰaⁿ,  Mary  a-niⁿ  niⁿ  (wakką́tta  ehą́  ǫkówettą, Mary anį́ nį) Speaker - Maude Supernaw
God - mother - we, rather than others - Mary - she have - he/she moving doing that

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

  • i-haⁿ (ihą́), i-hoⁿ (ihǫ́), e-haⁿ (ehą́) - mother, someone's, iⁿ-da (įdá) - my mother, di-haⁿ (dihą́) - your mother (RR-Quapaw)
  • i-hoⁿ (ihóⁿ) - mother, someone's mother, his or her mother, iⁿ-na-ha (íⁿnaⁿ ha) - my mother, thi-ha (˘íha) - your mother (Omaha/Ponca)
  • i-hoⁿ (i-hoⁿ´) - mother, i-noⁿ (í-noⁿ) - mother, i-na (i-na) - when addressing the mother, i-noⁿ-hoⁿ (í-noⁿ-hoⁿ) - my mother, thi-hoⁿ (thi-hoⁿ´) - your mother (FL-Osage)
  • i-hoⁿ (iihǫ́) - his/her mother, the/a mother, his/her mother's older sister, his/her maternal aunt, more precise than English, his/her aunt, i-naⁿ (iiną́) - my mother, my mother's sister, my maternal aunt, either younger or older than my mother, more precise than English, my aunt, thi-hoⁿ (điihǫ́) - your mother, used by anyone speaking to a man or a woman (CQ-Osage)
  • i-hoⁿ (ihóⁿ) - his or her mother, i-na-ye (inayé) -  My Mother! (said by a man addressing his own mother), i-na-ye a (ínaye á) - My Mother! (said by a woman addressing her own mother), i-naⁿ (ináⁿ) - my mother, my father's brother's wife, my mother's brother's daughter--older than myself (male or female speaking), my mother's brother's daughter-younger than myself (male or female speaking), my mother's brother's son's daughter (male speaking or female), my mother's sister, my mother's mother's brother's son's daughter (female speaking), my mother's mother's brother's son's son's daughter (male  or female speaking), my mother's mother's sister's daugther, my mother's mother's mother's sister's daughter's daughter, my step-mother, yi-hoⁿ (yihóⁿ) - your mother (Kanza)