Soup

Trechter, Sara STRECHTER at csuchico.edu
Fri Jul 27 21:25:36 UTC 2001


'wozhapi' Lakhota for berry soup made with corn starch or flour nowadays.
I'm also told that it is used pejoratively to refer to 'inbreeding' (cousin
marrying) among white people. sara t. (the 'zh' is a alveopalatal fricative)

>I recently came across a Cheyenne form hohpe 'soup'.  This is suspiciously
>like Crow hu'ppii 'soup'.  Does this have a Siouan etymology?  What about
>Algonkian?  It sure looks like a borrowing to me, and I am curious about
the
>direction of borrowing.
>
>Randy

Can't say, but I can give you the Nakota for 'soup' haNbi.  I think there's
another word for a thick soup, or stew, but I can neither rememeber nor find
it right now.  Hohpe reminds me of hoxpa 'cough', but that's almost
certainly coincidence.

The Cree word for soup (if I recall correctly) is anapapoy.  Ojibwe for
'soup' is naboob.  Those are the only Algonquian languages I have a sniff
about.

I've been not much help, I'm afraid.

Shannon



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