(O)maha

[Alan Hartley]

Koontz John E wrote:

> All of this allows us to suspect that the convention of referring to the
> Omahas as Mahas may have originated in Miami-Illinois, though there are a
> few missing links in the evidence.

So, did MI borrow a Dhegiha name and drop the o- in the process, by
analogy with their various a-less ethnonyms? (I assume borrowing went in
that direction, Siouan to Algonquian, in the case of the various
s^ah-/sah- names.)

Alan