Word for 'prairie'?

[Alan Hartley]

Rankin, Robert L wrote:

> how to say 'prairie' in Kaw.  I don't have much I can tell them.
> Does any of your work with Omaha, Ponca or Osage (or other languages)
> yield any insight.

Some Algonquian languages have a word based on a root (*mas^kw- ?)
meaning 'grass', e.g., Fox mas^kote:wi, Ojibway mas^kode.

Canadian French and American English 'prairie' refers to grassy areas
ranging in size from a small meadow to a great plain.

Alan