Biloxi aNksi "bow"

David Costa pankihtamwa at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 15 01:21:07 UTC 2005


Proto-Algonquian */me?tekwa/ (or some early daughter-language form) *could*
have meant 'bow', but the evidence is much better that it would have meant
'tree'.

> I realize that David Costa recommend a longer etymon for bow, but the
> Siouan forms don't seem to presuppose anything more than *me?tekwa, which
> I think I got from Aubin's PA Dictionary.



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