vocab word

[rwd0002 at unt.edu]

Quoting shannon west <shanwest at shaw.ca>:

> I was wondering if any of you recognise the word 'suyapi' as a Siouan word.
> It sure looks like something Dakotan, but I can't place it. Ideas?
>
A common word for "white man" in Interior Salish and Sahaptin, right?  I don't
think it is Dakotan. I would ask the Sahaptianists or Salishanists, or maybe
even northernmost Numicists.

Willem de Reuse