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What is the native American translation for the word self?

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Each different native American language has its own method of expressing the reflexive pronoun; there are many hundreds of languages so it is not possible to detail them all here, but these are a few:

In Munsee Derlaware reflexive pronouns are used for reflexive objects and for the grammatical objects of certain types of verbs: nhákay 'myself,' khákay 'yourself,' hwákayal'his/herself.' In the example kwəšə̆ná·wal hwákayal 'he injures himself' the reflexive pronoun is marked with the obviative suffix /-al/, as is the verb.

In Choctaw there are the reflexive pronoun ili- and the reciprocal pronoun itti-.

This last requires some comment. Itti- does have the reciprocal use, as in the English sentence "The boys hit each other." But it also is frequently used with the meaning of together, in company with each other. "The boys shout together, in unison".

In Lakota relexive verbs (v. refl.), are verbs formed from transitive verbs by incorporating the reflexive pronoun. There are two kinds:

a. reflexive verbs of complete predication, as

ontonic'iya, to hurt one's self

from ontonyan, vt., to hurt one.

b. reflexive verbs of incomplete predication which requires an objective complement, either a noun or an adjective, as

wicaša ic'icage, he made himself (became) a man

from wicaša, man, and kaga, vt., to make.

The Montana Salish languages such as Spokane and Kalispel use the reflexive ending ‑cút, ‑cú or -cútš, as in puls-s-cút = she killed herself (committed suicide).

In Maya (Yucatec), the element -ba indicates the reflexive "self" and it can be used with any Class A pronoun (in = I, a = you, u = he, k = we, u = they), as in xot-in-ba = I cut myself, xot-a-ba = you cut yourself.

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