<div>I don't suppose there's any chance "wattap" and "wapato" are somehow related? "Root" probably isn't enough of a semantic hook to hang such an etymology on. </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Robertson</b> <<a href="mailto:ddr11@columbia.edu">ddr11@columbia.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Ives Goddard has an article "Algonquian Linguistic Change and<br>Reconstruction" in the volume edited by Philip Baldi, "Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology", published in 1990 by Mouton de Gruyter.
<br><br>In this article, Goddard mentions a Proto-Algonquian cognate for Yurok & Wiyot (NW California, distant relatives of Algonquian), all forms in the set meaning 'spruce root' apparently.<br><br>The form in PA is *watapya. The Yurok is 7wohpeG (G=gamma), the Wiyot is to`p.
<br><br>Is this not the word we know in English as <wattap>, among other spellings, in historical sources? I'd thought it was a NW word, but it looks possible that it's from back East, from some Algonquian language.
<br><br>I don't have access to a specialized enough dictionary of English here at home, so I wonder if someone else can tell about this.<br><br>--Dave R<br><br>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!
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