Soup

[David Costa]

Actually, it's a native Algonquian word. It has an Arapaho cognate /hókok/,
and an Algonquin (Quebec Ojibwe) cognate /aboob(ii)/. This is reshaped in
most Algonquian languages to */napo:pi/ or */nepoopi/ under the influence of
*/nepyi/'water'. I could swear I saw an article somewhere by Goddard or
Pentland where this etymon was reconstructed as */apo:pyi/, tho I'm afraid I
can't find it at the moment. But either way, I guess Crow borrowed it from
Cheyenne?


Dave Costa


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From: Rgraczyk at aol.com
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Soup
Date: Fri, Jul 27, 2001, 12:41 pm


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