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[David Costa]

Don't forget /waapipin$ia/, literally 'white cat', a term that Albert
Gatschet got in the late 19th century, which he gives as 'white aquatic
monster, traveling by electricity', and 'a mythic white monster, thought to
be a whale by most Indians'.

There's no evidence that /wiikweepin$ia/ was ever a term for an underwater
panther; it's just the name for the Lynx, AKA lynx canadensis.

Dave


> Our Siouanist friends may be interested in knowing that in Miami-Illinois we
> have (at least) six terms for the Underwater Cat:
>
> /mih$pin$iwa/ 'great cat', /araamipin$ia/ 'underwater cat', /ariimipin$ia/
> 'within-cat', /akimarenia/ 'chiefman', /lenipin$ia/ 'original or ordinary
> cat' (this is a late historical form) and the one you mentioned the other
> day whose meaning we don't know, /wiikweepin$ia/  '?-cat'