Ethnic Terms

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 25 07:23:55 UTC 2002


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Koontz John E wrote:
> ... I think the fricative is still different, i.e., I think it may be
> wana(N)'ghe in an orthography that distinguishes the two.  I'll check.

Dorsey gives wana'ghi 'ghost'.  There is a tendency for his occasional
final -i to merge with final -e in LaFlesche's and more modern
tranascriptions, e.g., ppaNghi ~ ppaNghe 'Jerusalem artichoke'.



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