Quappa

[Rankin, Robert L]

Sorry, I've been out of town.
 
The "F" in Quapaw even turns up sporadically in semi-speakers of the '60's and '70's.  It's a mishearing of [x] or an inability to replacate it on the part of monolingual Europeans.  
 
Similar change takes place in English, after all, where the /x/ of 'enough, rough, tough', etc. was replaced with [f], often said to be of Northumbrian origin (and, no, it doesn't matter to me where the English sound change really originated).  
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Alan H. Hartley
Sent: Wed 9/14/2005 4:35 PM
To: Siouan
Subject: Quappa



I've been working on the Papers of George Washington and came across in
a letter of 1777 the phrase "three Tribes low down upon the Missisipi
viz. the Ukafpaw Tuckepaws and Oyayachtanu's 2000".

Has anyone seen an -f- in Quappa? I wonder if it's a misreading of -h-.

The editor identifies the Tuckepaws as Atakapas, which seems reasonable.

For the Algonquianists: might Oyayachtanu be a slightly garbled variant
of the full form of Wea?

Thanks,

Alan