Caddo ethnic terms

Wallace Chafe chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Thu Aug 1 02:28:36 UTC 2002


On this one point, nope, it only means Frenchman. But that's only in modern
times. There has to have once been a period when it meant something more
general, I should think, in order to explain the switch, if that's indeed
what happened.

> It occurs to me to wonder if the Caddo form means anything besides
> 'Frenchman'.  Any chance it means 'people who don't have a specific name'?



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