[Lexicog] Turkey

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>:

> In several other related languages however the term means variously
> 'partridge, prairie chicken, turkey' so is or was a more general term
> for gallinaceous birds.  Dhegiha terms for 'chicken' are derived from
> the same root.  
> 
> Bob
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Similarly, Miami-Illinois derives the name for the domestic turkey from its 
name for the wild one. The domestic one is called /waapipilia/ 'white-turkey'.

Michael

> > The Spirit Lake Dakota (Ft. Totten, ND) call the turkey Zizica [zee
> -zee'-cha(another puzzle as the name means nothing).
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