horse paper

[lcumberl at indiana.edu]

Quoting Anthony Grant <Granta at edgehill.ac.uk>:

> Kiddle cited some ethnography (John C. Ewer, perhaps?) that mentioned
> other ways of referring to horses, pointing out thaqt a Blackfoot form
> for horse derived from 'big dog'.

...as is Assiniboine, s^uNka-thaNka.  I take this to mean not that the horse
looked like a big dog to them, but that the horse did what the dog did but in a
bigger way.

-Linda