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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Gentium;">tapunįteka</span>), which might also incorporate this 'egg' term. I'm not sure what the -ka suffix is, but it occurs quite often in Biloxi.<br><br>Dave<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 2/1/09, Rankin, Robert L <i><rankin@ku.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Rankin, Robert L <rankin@ku.edu><br>Subject: RE: Biloxi 'moon'<br>To: "Siouan List" <siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU><br>Date: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 9:22 PM<br><br><pre>Look under 'star 1' and also 'egg' in the Comparative Dictionary<br>file for similar forms. It appears as though 'star' and 'egg'<br>were possible homophones in Proto-Siouan. And there may be some connection with<br>Dave's 'moon' term in Biloxi. <br> <br>Bob<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: owner-siouan@lists.Colorado.EDU
on behalf of David Kaufman<br>Sent: Sun 2/1/2009 5:12 PM<br>To: Siouan List<br>Subject: Biloxi 'moon'<br><br><br>Hi all,<br><br>I have a rather odd but I hope interesting hypothesis about the word for moon<br>in Biloxi, nahiNte. I'm wondering if this may be derived from the word for<br>'sun', ina + the word for 'egg' iNti or iNdi. It seems that<br>initial vowels are sometimes lost in Biloxi compounds, e.g., aNyaa-xi<br>'sacred man, king, shaman' becomes 'yaaxi' in Gatschet's<br>data. Thus perhaps dropping the initial i of 'ina' leaves na. It is<br>also apparently common for Biloxi vowel initial words to add an h sound, such as<br>'aNyaa' or 'haNyaa' and in this case the h may serve an<br>epenthetic purpose between two vowels as well, so that na + (h)iNdi or (h)iNti =<br>nahiNte, nahiNti (e and i, acc. to Haas, were allophonic and pronounced<br>somewhere between ay and ee), thus moon or 'sun egg'. Does anyone know<br>of other languages that may have
such a metaphor, 'egg of the sun' or<br>such for moon? The moon is considered female according to Biloxi mythology,<br>which might lend more credence to this idea. Any thoughts?<br><br>Dave<br> <br><br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>