Kilatika

[Michael McCafferty]

A subtribe of the Algonquian-speaking Miami was identified by the 
Jesuit Claude-Jean Allouez and Pierre-Charles Delliette, a French 
teenager who lived among the Wea (a subtribe of the Miami), as 
<Kilatika> and <Kiratika>, respectively.

This ethnonym has no apparent etymology in Miami-Illinois. I was 
wondering if by chance it might have an apparent etymology in an Ohio 
valley or Mississippian Siouan language.

Thank you.

Michael McCafferty