more "flat" versus "shallow"

Mark Awakuni-Swetland mawakuni-swetland2 at unl.edu
Thu Feb 22 18:21:45 UTC 2001


22 Feb 2001
Aloha all:
Looking at the Fletcher and La Flesche collection of Omaha names for streams and rivers:

Ni'xebe te.....Shallow Water.....Bayer Creek, Iowa
1911:92

versus

Ni btha'cka ke....Flat River....Platte river
1911:90
Note: c = c-cedilla with the sound of s

uthixide


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