<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi,<br><br>As the title suggests, this is really not a Siouan question but an Iroquoian one, since I know we have a few Iroquoianists here on the List. My question is this: the Cherokee word for corn is 'selu'; are the words for corn in Northern Iroquoian similar or different? Also, it seems that the Cherokee word 'selu' may somehow be borrowed from Uto-Aztecan 'xilo'. Does anyone have any thoughts on how Cherokee could have borrowed this term from Uto-Aztecan? Esp. since no Uto-Aztecan borrowing for corn seems to occur in any other Southeastern language that I know of. (Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.) Thanks.<br><br>Dave<br></td></tr></table><br>