Mandan re-redux

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alan Hartley wrote:

> Koontz John E wrote:
>
> > The element here is *maNh-a 'earth, mud, muddy, miry', cf. Dakhota maNkha
> > (maNh-ka) 'earth', OP maNa' 'bank', (s^u'de)maNha 'fog' (riverbank smoke),
> > Ks maNha' 'land', Os niN'maNhaN 'marsh', IO maN'ha 'earth, muddy', Wi
> > maNaNha' 'mud, be muddy'.
>
> Any chance this is part of Mandan maNta 'Missouri River'?

It doesn't seem impossible, given that "muddy" seems to be the basis of
other names for the stream, but I'd have to (a) review what we said about
this before and (b) see if there's anything plausible to account for
-(Ca)ta(N).