land=mother???

[Jimm G GoodTracks]

For what it is worth, in Pawnee, my mother = atira.
John might ask David what the term is in Wichita.

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:32:42 -0600 (MDT) Koontz John E
<John.Koontz at colorado.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Wallace Chafe wrote:
> > Yes, the Caddo expression is ina? wa:dat (? for glottal stop, and
wa:dat
> > has an accent on the first syllable). It's quite literally "mother
earth".
> > Can ina? be a borrowing from Osage (assuming that Osage women
captives
> > often became Caddo mothers)?
>