calumet de paix

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> The group is discussing a couple of different roots here.  There IS a
> root /ttaN/ 'touch' in Kaw, yuttaN 'to touch'.  I don't know if yattaN
> 'drink' is related or not.

That would be cognate with Da yatkAN' 'to drink', so it would only be
related if Kaw yuttaN involves PMVS *-tkaN as opposed to a hypothetical
*-htaN.

> But there is also a root */the/.  And it gives i-ba-che 'light the
> sacred pipe'.
> ...
> Unhappily, it varies.  Sometimes a stop with the opening apostrophe
> (spiritus 'asper) is /CC/ i.e. */hC/ but sometimes it is */Ch/.  In one
> or two cases he writes both the apostrophe AND an /h/, as in /op'han/
> 'cow elk'.  Go figure.

All I can think of in that respect is that OP aNphaN 'elk' is one of the
terms that in OP have ph instead of h from *ph.