Comanche borrowings?

[Anthony Grant]

Aho, Rory!

Yes, Joseph Casagrande noted in IJAL in the 1950s that Comanche wasabe
was a Dhegiha loan.  There are a few other forms that the languages
share (/aho/ being one of them!).  I think the Comanche word for
'shield' is also borrowed from a Dhegiha language.

Best

Anthony

>>> rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu 14/01/2004 16:24:16 >>>




Has anybody noticed that the Comanche word for 'black bear'
is wasape?  (Comanche Vocabulary. Manuel Garcia Rejon,
tr. & ed. Daniel J. Gelo, University of Texas Press, Austin,
1995.)  I assume that's a loan from Dhegihan, probably
Ponka if not Kaw or Osage.

Also, they seem to have three words for 'horse':
puki, tIhIya and kobi.  Kobi seems to mean 'mustang'
or 'stallion'; is this another variant of caballo/kawa?

Rory