3 Osage Names

[Carolyn Quintero]

Grétomih: A recent version of this name (Gretomih) is letóNwiN 'hawk woman'
which was the name of Mrs. Holding who was one of the major sources for the
Osage dictionary information.

 

Not sure about the other ones, perhaps in the tribal museum there is a
collection of names and one could find alternative spellings that could shed
some light on this, by providing a clue as to what sounds are meant by this
spelling.

 

If the inquirer (Billy or Killian) wants to contact me off-list I can
speculate (make some wild guesses) on the other two names. HYPERLINK
"mailto:cquintero at interlinguainc.com"cquintero at interlinguainc.com

Carolyn

 

 

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Rankin, Robert L
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:25 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: 3 Osage Names

 

Gretomih looks like the first part, greto, would be 'hawk'.  Mih would be
'female, woman' if the letters ih are to be pronounced like the ee in keep.
Otherwise it's a mystery to me.  This is interesting because the sequence
gr- in Osage came to be pronounced as L over a century ago.

 

bob

 

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Billy Maxwell
Sent: Thu 12/6/2007 8:58 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: 3 Osage Names

Tom or anyone, 

Just wondering if these names were translatable? 

Billy 

Dear Billy, 

I have two colored lithographs of the same Osage Indians by Louis- 

Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) from 1827 in my collection. In this time 

this Osage Indian group travelled around in Europe. I sent separate the 

photos . I know three names of these Indians Grétomih, Kishagashugah 

and Minckchatahooh. 

 

Greetings 

Kilian from old Germany 


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