(O)maha

[Michael McCafferty]

Yes, in a way. In Miami-Illinois we'd be talking about ethnonymic prefix /a-/
not /o-/, if it was ever there in < Maha >.


Michael

Quoting Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>:

> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> > Marquette wrote < Maha > on his map of the Mississippi, a name he got from
> > the Illinois-speaking Peoria.
>
> Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place.  Could the deletion of initial o-
> in an ethnonym have anything to do with Miami-Illinois morphology?
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> JEK
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