On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Bruce Ingham wrote: > re Arapaho, I have also presumed, on no evidence at all, that it is a > rendering into English of Mah^piya Tho. Am I right or is it from > some other Siouan language. Crow has Alappaho', but unless this has some obvious interpretation, it could be a loan, e.g., from English. Ala- is one of the instrumentals. JEK