In Crow and Hidatsa we have awa' 'earth, land'. Also, in Hidatsa 'awa 'year' and in Crow awa' 'season'. I always assumed these were homonymns, but maybe not! Randy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/siouan/attachments/20010320/09a24c81/attachment.html>