ASB puza

Heike Bödeker heike.boedeker at netcologne.de
Sat Aug 9 14:59:46 UTC 2003


At 08:19 09.08.03 -0500, mmccaffe at indiana.edu wrote:
>As this list's non-resident (homeless) yet lurking Algonquianist, I'd have
>to question whether in fact Ojibwa donated the term to Dakota. Certainly a
>possibility but not necessarily a foregone conclusion.

The problem I'm having with it is that then z^ would have been shifted to z
without recognizable reason as the target language has both z^ snd z. The
next best A lg. with a s/š merger would be Plains Cree, if it was about
that... Anyone any ideas?

All the best,

Heike



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