School: ttappuska

[Jimm G. GoodTracks]

Yes, it is in IOM:  wo'guNdhe "where you learn s.t.; wagu'Ndhe(mi)  "teaches/ shows s.t. (fem).  From:  gigu'Ndhe  (point; show; indicate).

The word in Pawnee is correct, but I am unable to give an anylisis.  Doug Parks is at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.  Sorry, I don't have his em-address at the moment.  jgt


From: Rory M Larson 
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:37 PM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU 
Subject: School: ttappuska


Hi all, 

I've been looking at the Omaha term ttappuska, presently meaning 'school', but apparently meaning 'schoolteacher' in the 19th century.  It also appears in Osage, in both the La Flesche dictionary and in Carolyn Quintero's recent "Osage Dictionary", where it is listed as taapo'ska.  I think is nicely analyzable in Dhegiha, but Carolyn's entry has the bracketted note: 

  [Borrowed from Pawnee taapuska 'school' (Douglas Parks). 
   The Pawnee word may have entered Osage at different times 
   in different forms, with or without preaspiration of the 
   stops (h)t and (h)p and with a long or short vowel aa 
   or a; it is losing or has lost the preaspiration in 
   (h)t and (h)p.] 

This claims that the term is actually a loan from Pawnee.  I'm wondering if Douglas Parks is on the list, or if anyone knows how to get in touch with him, or if anyone else on the list knows Pawnee well enough to comment?  Is the word analyzable in Pawnee, and if so, what is the meaning? 

Also, I'd like to know how widespread the term is.  Does it exist in Kaw?  Iowa-Oto?  Ponka?  Any other language? 

Thanks for any advice! 

Rory 
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