A little more on Iroquoian

[CRAIG KOPRIS]

Here are some missing Wyandot examples from Barbeau.
Note that many of them are morphologically complex.

3 = voiced palatal fricative

--- BARudes at aol.com wrote:
> W     at'i:roN ('raccoon' ?) (I could not locate
> this word in Barbeau's
> material at
>                    the moment, but the words for
> wildcat and skunk are
> different)

Raccoon:

tiroN?  (Barbeau 1915:192) 'the Raccoon'

Barbeau usually gave another term instead:

kwe3'a:kweh (Barbeau N.d.:429) 'raccoon'
     N.B. this manuscript is highly unreliable
t'u:kwe3`a:kweh (Barbeau 1960:093 #53) 'raccoon'
det'u:kwe3`a:kwe:h (Barbeau 1960:093 #62) 'the
raccoon'

Skunk:

ditats'i?ah (Barbeau 1960:097 #22, 34; N.d.:352, 429)
'(the) skunk; (the) strong smell'

Felines:

tak'u:$ (Barbeau 1960:131 #20; N.d.:429) 'a cat'

sk`eN?kw'a? (Barbeau 1960:189 #39, 190 #17; 1915:250;
N.d.:429) 'wild-cat (brave although small)'

tehutsi?tsut (Barbeau N.d.:430) 'a variety of wild
cat'

and a set of examples based on 'to scalp'

Barbeau, Marius.  1915.  Huron and Wyandot Mythology:
With an Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records.
 Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Memoir
80, Anthropological Series 11. Ottawa: Government
Printing Bureau
--.  1960.  Huron-Wyandot Traditional Narratives: In
Translations and Native Texts.  National Museum of
Canada Bulletin 165, Anthropological Series 47.
--.  N.d.  Huron-Wyandot Dictionary.  Ms. Canadian
Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.


- Craig Kopris