MANDAN

Mon Sep 6 18:33:15 UTC 1999

McKenzie (early 19c., in Wood & Thiessen 1985, 249) gives the following
names for the Mandan:

Gros Ventres:		arrach bugja wrach baga
Corbeaux (Crow):	annach bogu minnach baga

cf.--

Hidatsa adahpakoa [second a short, dot above h] 'Mandan' (Matthews 1877,
125)
Crow birexba:ke [first e is schwa, a is accented] 'person, people'
(Lowie 1960, 305-6)

We can thus apparently exclude at least CH as the source of Eng. Mandan.