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[Mark-Awakuni Swetland]

To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu

Subject RE: Lakota Concept of Zero

I tend to think that trying to relate kkoge to k?u is a folk etymology. 

The phonemes k? and kk cannot correspond in these languages.


Perhaps a more likely relationship would be with the root kko- 'to make a 

hollow sound'. 


Bob



ALOHA Y'ALL

So how does ku'ge "box" relate to "drum"?

WibthahoN,

Uthixide

Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anthropology/Ethnic Studies
Native American Studies
University of Nebraska
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