<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 2/28/01 10:24:13 PM Mountain Standard Time,
<BR>John.Koontz@colorado.edu writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> re Arapaho, I have also presumed, on no evidence at all, that it is a
<BR>> rendering into English of Mah^piya Tho. Am I right or is it from
<BR>> some other Siouan language.
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<BR>Crow has Alappaho', but unless this has some obvious interpretation, it
<BR>could be a loan, e.g., from English. Ala- is one of the instrumentals.
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<BR>JEK
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<BR>I think you can make a case that Arapaho is a Crow or Hidatsa word. The
<BR>derivation that is usually given is alappe' 'tattoos' + aho' 'many, much'.
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<BR>Randy</FONT></HTML>