Tutelo-Saponi Adoption String

[shokooh Ingham]

I always wondered whether the Lakota word for 'orphan' wablenica had a 'without' component in the -nica part, nica being a stem meaning 'not to exist'.   Does anyone have a derivation for it?
Bruce

--- On Wed, 3/8/11, Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:

> From: Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu>
> Subject: RE: Tutelo-Saponi Adoption String
> To: "siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU" <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
> Date: Wednesday, 3 August, 2011, 23:23
> 'Orphan' in all the Siouan languages
> I have dictionaries for is a compound of 'mother' or
> 'parent' plus the verb 'be none', in otherwords
> 'no-parents'.  I'd bet that's what it is in Tutelo
> also.  If you find the term for 'parent' or just
> 'mother' in Tutelo and follow it with the verb 'be none',
> you'd have it.
> 
> Bob
> 
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> [owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU]
> on behalf of Scott Collins [saponi360 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 9:54 AM
> To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Subject: Tutelo-Saponi Adoption String
> 
> The only thing on adoption I find is the name of the
> adoption string in the Spirit Adoption ceremony which is
> kanokwiya, is there a word found for orphan in the
> Tutelo-Saponi language?
> 
> 
> 
> Scott P. Collins
> 
> 
>