WINN TERM "FRENCH"

[Hu Matthews]

is b'itchii h'achkite = generally their knives are long

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From: "Jimm GoodTracks" <goodtracks at GBRonline.com>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Cc: "George W. Garvin" <GWGarvin at ho-chunk.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:18 PM
Subject: WINN TERM "FRENCH"


> There are several ethnic terms in Radin's Winnebago that challenge an
> analysis.  While I will seek some help with those at some other time,
right
> now I am perplexed with the term for:
> French  =  Djimoxgemena
>
> I looked in Ken Miner's lexicon to no avail.  I looked in Zeps' as well,
but
> nothing.  Mark Swetland offered:
> wa'xe ukethiN  "white man not strange".   I dont see a connection to the
> Winnebago.
> [QUES:  Was Mark going to do a undated Lexicon??}
>
> Riggs offers:
> Was^icuNikceka   ("common white man" jgt??)
>
> "Everyday Crow" has:
> Isb'tchiihachkite    which I cannot analyze and looks nothing like the
> Winnebago term.
>
> I found nothing in Kanza, and Quapaw only had:  is^ta'xe  (whiteman).
> NONE of the above resemble the Winn/ Hochank version, which remains a
> mystery.
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