Word for 'prairie' in Hochunk.

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Fri Jan 30 01:07:08 UTC 2004


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> Following up on what John said, I'd hazard that Hocangara /mooska/ is
> pretty clearly a borrowing from a neighboring Algonquian language.

It works a bit differently from 'bow', where the -kw appears as -gu.



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