Soup

[Michael Mccafferty]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>

I don't know Cheyenne. But the term in question sounds like it could be a
reflex of Proto-Algonquian */-aapow-/ 'liquid'. Reflexes of this final are
all over the place in the Algonquian languages, so its being in Cheyenne
would not be a surprise.


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