"phute'okicu" (etymological enquiry)

[willemdereuse at unt.edu]

Quoting Jan Ullrich <jfu at centrum.cz>:

> I asked a fluent speaker today about "elephant" and he pronounced it
> clearly with ejective c: phutewokic'u. He said it means "he gives food
> to his own lip", consisting of phute 'lip' and wokic'u 'to give foot to
> one's own'. The word wokic'u is attested by other speakers and
> materials.
>
Thank you for saving the day, Jan.  I annotated my Buechel dictionary 
accordingly.

Willem