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[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Rory M Larson wrote:
> (Regarding the words, Mark and I visited with our Omaha speakers
> last night, and we tried out some of them.  They definitely do
> not recognize either /kodha/ or /kudha/ as "friend", or as
> anything else.  For /ugashe/, they kept relating it to the
> Omaha word /uga'shoN/, meaning to travel.  They did not
> recognize /koN oNdha/ either.  It seems that all three of
> these words are Osage, but not Omaha.)

There is a song in Fletcher & LaFlesche that has iNdakkudha '(my) friend'
in it.  This is possibly a Dakota loan.

However, this is a good point.  The usual term for 'male friend' in OP in
all recorded periods is khage, even though learned linguists might
recognize kku/odha.

JEK