bird.

[Pamela Munro]

I mistyped the gloss for the second word -- it should have been 'make a
noise like a bluejay' (surely a more reasonable concept). Sorry!

Pam

Koontz John E wrote:

>>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'.
>>
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>I should point out that tiNs^kila is an excellent match for Biloxi
>tiNskana - close enough to suggest borrowing by Biloxi.
>
>My understanding is that confusions in mapping between Native American and
>English systems are pretty standard for terms like 'bluejay' and
>'bluebird'.
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Pamela Munro
Professor
Department of Linguistics
UCLA Box 951543
Los Angeles Ca 90095-1543
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