bikkude

[R. Rankin]

 The 'friend' set in the CSD is certainly a mess all
right.

>> Thus the Omaha word cannot be an actual cognate with
>> 'friend'.  It has
>> to come from somewhere else. And it would be in
>> homonymic clash with
>> khota (the allomorph of 'friend') in Dakotan.

> Omaha does have (iN)dakkudha 'friend' in some songs,
> but I think this is a
> Dakota loan word.

I was thinking of /bikkude/ there.  It can't be cognate
with its final /-e/.

Quapaw and Kaw 'friend' are kkoda and kkoya
respectively.  I was using 'organic' in the sense of
Sapir.  If the cognates in Dhegiha has -a rather
than -e then the -a is 'organic' in Dakotan.  It's just
that one can't tell from Dakotan alone in such cases if
historically it was E or A.

Bob