Biloxi Words and Tutelo-Saponi

[David Kaufman]

Scott,

The data that I have are that Biloxi sokuno is cypress, Taxodium distichum,
while sokudi nithaani is another large species of Taxodium found in
Louisiana, which may be the same differentiation that you made.  Bi. sokuno
is likely borrowed from Choctaw or Mobilian Trade shąkolo, as, like Anthony
said, cuwahana is from Choctaw or Mobilian Trade cuwahla (Bi. didn't have
/l/, so this was usually replaced by /n/ in borrowings).  The sokudi
variant may be a hybrid of Muskogean and Biloxi, since -udi means something
like 'root' in Bi., thus combining sokuno + udi.  Nithaani means 'big' in
Biloxi.

Hope this helps somewhat, although neither of these tree terms appears to
be originally Siouan, but rather Muskogean borrowings, which stands to
reason since the Biloxis were migrants to the Gulf coast and from a region
that likely didn't have cypress trees.

Dave

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to get a translation from Biloxi inot
> Tutelo-Saponi.
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> The words in Biloxi are Sokuno and Sokudi nithaani.
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> Sokuno is Cypress or a.k.a. Bald Cypress
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> Sokudi nithaani is the Pond Cypress
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> I was doing a translation on the Juniper which was Cuwahana in Biloxi. I
> used acu:ti wi:ya for this because it is called the redwood tree or the
> words translate into literally as redwood tree or red wood. I have not yet
> found a word for Cedar which is another species of tree from the *Juniperus
> virginiana a.k.a. Juniper tree. *
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> I'm trying to get a breakdown on Sokuno and Sokudi nithaani as to better
> be able to literalize the translation and see if I can find the correlating
> Tutelo-Saponi words for these two species of Cypress trees.
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> I'm working on four tree species; the pine tree (waste or wasti in
> Tutelo-Saponi), juniper tree (acuti wiya in Tutelo-Saponi), the cypress
> tree and cedar tree.
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> Scott P. Collins
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-- 
David Kaufman, Ph.C.
University of Kansas
Linguistic Anthropology
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