Iskousogos (Re: Siouan etymology?) (fwd)

[Wallace Chafe]

I haven't been following this very closely, but I don't know what led
someone to think of -g- as an Iroquoian plural.
Wally

> I received this from an archaeologist on this matter of "Iskousogos".
> Any comments? Thank you.
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> Couple things here of possible relevance.  First is that I think that
> there is a very good chance that what most have read as IskoUsogos in the
> original (handwritten, of course) document (Gallinee) is in fact
> IskoNsogos (have you every seen the original?  I haven't).  And if it is
> actually Iskonsogos then the resemblance to Escansaques is even more
> striking.  But a fly in the ointment is that I've always assumed that the
> -g- in I(s)konsogos was the Iroqouis plural (and the -s- of course French
> plural), and if the -g- was added by the Iroquois, then what is it doing
> showing up (as -q- in Escansaques) out in the southern Plains?