Companion Terms for 7 and 8 (Re: 'eight' some more)

[Mary Marino]

I think it represents the same sound as the medial "G" - a velar fricative,
whether voiced or voiceless.

         Mary



At 09:46 PM 5/9/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 5 May 2004, Mary Marino wrote:
> > Fr Valentin Vegreville gives the form caGuweG  for "seven".  (His head
> > entry is Sept, ou sept fois)  (G = g with a superscript dot, which I take
> > to be a velar fricative)    He compiled his 'Lexique' , seemingly, in
> > 1876-77 when he was at the Lac-Ste-Anne parish in Alberta.  The form is
> > presumably Stoney, though he himself uses the term Assiniboine.   "Six ou
> > six fois"  is caGpeG.   His <c>, by the way, = s^.
>
>I meant to ask about the final -G in these numerals.  What does it
>represent?