bird.

[Pamela Munro]

I haven't been following all this as carefully as I should have, but
we're getting into larger territories to the South here. Chickasaw has
tIshkila 'bluejay' (the cap I is nasalized), with an "expressive" form
tIsh tIsh tIsh aachi (characteristically three CVC syllables plus 'say')
which my teacher tells me means 'to make a noise like a bluebird'.

Pam

Rankin, Robert L wrote:

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>>But not in the South.
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>>Where - in case it's not clear - Bob means, 'not in Dhegiha', not 'not
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>in Nebraska Winnebago'.
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>Right.
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>>BTW, Biloxi has /tiNskana'/ 'jay', with simple /tiNska/ meaning 'back
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>of the neck'.  But Ofo is /teska itho:hi/ 'bluejay' = 'bird' + 'blue'.
>And tiNska/teska may somehow be related, given the Dakotan and other
>forms.
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>>I think that all the somewhat irregularly matching TV(s) syllables
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>here are onomatopoeic representations of the jay's "jay" call.  For
>example, I suspect tiNskana and teska are essentially tiNs-ka (+ ???)
>and tes-ka 'one (that goes) tiNs' or 'one (that goes) tes'.
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>Possibly so, but Ofo /teska/ is 'bird' of any kind, not just jay.  In
>pointing that out, I was trying to cast a bit of doubt about the JOD
>Biloxi form.  Dorsey classifies it with the 'back of the neck' term, but
>I wonder if it isn't related to the Ofo 'bird' term, with 'back of the
>neck' in Biloxi being a mere homonym.  Dorsey and Swanton's lexical
>materials are full of homonyms listed under single dictionary entries.
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>Bob
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