<DIV><EM><FONT face="times new roman">> Biloxi aNksapixti means 'real bow' (xti is the usual suffix for 'real' when there has been a replacement.). ></FONT></EM></DIV>
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<DIV>Wow! So does this -xti ending also occur in other Siouan languages in this context? So far I'd only found the D-S (Dorsey-Swanton) big or very gloss, but this 'real' gloss certainly makes more sense!</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave<BR><BR><B><I>"Rankin, Robert L" <rankin@ku.edu></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Siouan has a good term for 'arrow' or some antecedant weapon also, presumably atlatl darts. <BR><BR>Biloxi aNksapixti means 'real bow' (xti is the usual suffix for 'real' when there has been a replacement.). ANksi, as David points out, is the 'arrow' root. This leaves -api unexplained. Note that Ohio Valley Siouan has no trace of the MVS pluralizer -api, so that interpretation is hors de combat. I wonder if it could be from the Algonquian term Dave Costa cites just below? I'm not 100% happy with the idea since Siouan usually just takes the first one or two syllables of those interminably long Algonquian words, but at least we have a look-alike.<BR><BR>Bob<BR><BR>> The other main term for the concept can be reconstructed variously as PA <BR>*/a?ca:pyi/ (usually 'bowstring') or */a?ta:pya/ 'bow' (the form found in <BR>Eastern). That has that same 'string' final as */me?tekwa:
pyi/,
but the <BR>front half is unfamiliar. That one *is* found in Eastern Algonquian (and <BR>Central), but it has several unresolved phonological glitches in the <BR>daughter languages. The fact that it doesn't reconstruct cleanly and that it <BR>has an odd geographic distribution means it's probably not a normal <BR>Proto-Algonquian etymon either, like it was formed later in the post-PA <BR>period and passed around the family after the languages were already <BR>dialectally differentiated.<BR><BR>> However, Proto-Algonquian does have a totally reconstructible form for <BR>'arrow' (when possessed): PA */ni:pi/ 'my arrow', */ki:pi/ 'your arrow', <BR>*/wi:pi/ 'his arrow', etc. It's found throughout the family. The basic stem <BR>is PA */-i:p-/, which is not internally analyzable and looks quite old.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.
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