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Actually, */pele:wa/ is more complicated than I realized. <BR>
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Here's the breakdown:<BR>
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'turkey': Shawnee, Fox, Miami, Potawatomi, Delaware<BR>
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'grouse' (of some kind): Ojibwe, Menominee, Cree, Micmac, Arapaho/GrosVentre<BR>
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I'm a tad reluctant to reconstruct this as 'grouse' since there are better Proto-Algonquian candidates for that. Perhaps its true PA meaning is 'salient local game fowl'. <BR>
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Ojibwe <I>mizise</I> is from an etymon (*/me?$i?le:wa/, lit., 'big flier') that seems to mean 'turkey' most of the time, and 'prairie chicken' the rest of the time. <BR>
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'turkey': Ojibwe, Cree, Cheyenne, Menominee<BR>
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'prairie chicken': Fox, Miami <BR>
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Dave<BR>
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> David Costa wrote:<BR>
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>> The Proto-Algonquian word for 'turkey', */pele:wa/, can be etymologized <BR>
>> as literally meaning 'flier'.<BR>
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> which comes out in Ojibway as bine 'partridge, ruffed grouse' and binesi <BR>
> 'bird (of a large species)'. Turkey is mizise.<BR>
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> /pele:wa/ descendants in Plains Cree mean 'bird' and 'prairie chicken'.<BR>
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> Alan<BR>
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