More bears.

[Bruce Ingham]

in Lakota 'whale' is wamnitu presumably 'thing being in water' and
 I think I've seen in for 'hippo' too,  which would make sense.
Incidentally does anyone have an explanation for uNh^ceg^ila or
uNkceg^ila for 'mastodon' or 'prehistoric animal', known through the
skeletons found on the plains.  Unkce looks like the word 'e.cre.
ent' which was quarantined in a recent dialogue g^i 'brown' and la
'diminutive'.  Alltogether highly unpleasant to behold I suppose.  In
one of Buechels texts there is a description of the discovery of one
of these.

Bruce

Date sent:      	Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:49:02 -0500
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From:           	"Erik D. Gooding" <egooding at iupui.edu>
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Subject:        	Re: More bears.

I was hoping for someone to say "Oh, my!" from the "lions and tigers, and
bears, oh, my!" of my youth.


At 03:11 PM 02/28/2001 -0600, RLR wrote:
>> What about lions and tigers? (that's me playing the straight man for
>> someone else)
>
>Hmm, good question. All I know is 'elephant' in Kaw, which is wakkaNda
>xoje-ttaNga 'great gray god'.
>
>B.

Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS