Locatives and wa- problems.

[Rory Larson]

Ø The "true aspirates" in Omaha should generally have voiced counterparts in Hochunk.  There may be interesting exceptions.  I'd like to check 'cow elk' and 'grizzly'.  Hochunk should have voiced stops in cognates for Dhegiha oophaN and maNtho.

For Omaha, I have òⁿpHoⁿ and moⁿtšHù.  It looks like the ‘grizzly’ term got diminutivized somewhere in Omaha history.  The ‘elk’ term agrees with Hoocąk in having nasalization of the first vowel as well as the second, and, as far as I know, in not being gender specific.

Sorry to hear about the broken hip.  Good luck on your recovery.

Rory


From: Siouan Linguistics [mailto:SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu] On Behalf Of Rankin, Robert L.
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Subject: Re: Locatives and wa- problems.

Iren,

Did I already answer this one?  Seems to me I may have.

> Hoocąk grizzly bear is mąąco (definitely with a voiceless affricate).

Going back to *th.  The initial /mą/ may go back to *wa- if 'grizzly' is bimorphemic.

> As for cow elk, I’m not aware of there being a specific word for a female elk, generally elk is hųųwą

This is the 'cow elk' term historically.  The cognate is oophą in several languages,  so that's one of the things that happens to *ph in Hoochunk.

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The "true aspirates" in Omaha should generally have voiced counterparts in Hochunk.  There may be interesting exceptions.  I'd like to check 'cow elk' and 'grizzly'.  Hochunk should have voiced stops in cognates for Dhegiha oophaN and maNtho.

Bob


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