Autonym of Mosopeleas-Ouesperies-Ofos

David Costa pankihtamwa at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 25 00:58:34 UTC 2007


Such a construction would be impossible in Illinois, whatever it was
supposed to mean.

Didn't Bob come up with an alternate, non-Algonquian etymology for
'Mosopelea'?

Dave


> Mosopelea is probably an Illinois Indian name meaning literally 'deer-turkey'
> < moonswa 'deer' + pile:wa 'turkey.'



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