s^aaN for Sioux

[Alan H. Hartley]

Alan H. Hartley wrote:
> Bruce Ingham wrote:
> 
>> I once asked an elderly Ponca man about the similarity
>> between the word s^aN
>> and s^aaN or s^aN ama, the name give to the Sioux.
>>
>> Is this word connected to the word Saone applied to
>> some Lakota bands.  I have never quite understood the
>> explanations of this term. Can anyone help
> 
> 
> Riggs (Dakota English Dict. (1890) 91) etymologizes Dakota čaŋo´na 
> (c^aNo'na), a subgroup of the Yanktonais, as 'wood hitters'. (I don't 
> know the Net Siouan for eng, hence the N. If Riggs' aŋ is more properly 
> rendered now as ą (a-hook; Latin small letter A with ogonek), then aN is 
> the correct Net Siouan.)

But Hdbk. N. Amer. Indians XIII (2001) 757 says Saone is of unknown 
original form and etymology.

Alan