Sky and clouds

Catherine Rudin CRudin at wscgate.wsc.edu
Wed Feb 14 18:54:11 UTC 2001


>This said, at the moment sadly I can't recall how this works in
>Omaha-Ponca!  I think 'sky' might be maNxpi, obviously an old CVC + pi
>plural formation. ...
>I don't remember 'cloud' at all.

In Mark Swetland's UmoNhoN Iye of Elizabeth Stabler, 'sky' is maNghe and 'cloud'
is maNxpi (slightly re-spelled, of course).  So clouds are plural sky?



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