Articles are specialized adjectives. In English, they would be "the," "a", and "an." Hopia is a compound word. Hopi is a verb. The suffix "a" means "one which" or "that which." A possible example of the noun-adj-article word order would be "chuka chito pa," where chuka means house, chito means large, and pa means this. Literally translated, it reads house-big-this. (That's my baby Choctaw.) I hope this clears that up. George Ann >From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Re: Tribal membership >Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 02:00:08 EDT > >In a message dated 7/22/2002 10:14:42 AM Central Daylight Time, >wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > > > Choctaw is a noun-adjective-article language. > > > > That would be the significance of the location of word order. Also, the > > verb > > always comes at the end of the sentence. > > > > George Ann > > > > > >Well, George Ann, > > if I understand what you are saying correctly, if Hopia occurs at >the >beginning of a name then it designates what that person was, such as if >Hopia >occurred at the beginning it means either "leader" or "bone picker" but if >it >occurs at the end it designates what a person did or how the person did >what >he did? I'm still a bit confused because I take article and noun to mean >the >same thing, that is that neither is a verb. > > Or are you saying that if Hopia occurs at the end then it is the >verb >form of "leader" of "bone picker" and means "leads" or "picks bones"? > > Or am I just confused right now. > > John Craven > New Orleans > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== >Try Markie and Fay's CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST pages at >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.html for CHOCTAW >Muster Rolls, Orphans lists, censuses, land records, etc. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com