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<font face="Arial" size="4">Thanks to Anthony we have basically the last and most authoritative word on<i> Saganash</i> and its cousins in Colonial North America.<br>
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<font size="4">Just a <font size="4">quick note on the Osage <me-gra-sha>. I assume this
<font size="4">represents an attempt to render something like<font size="4"> </font>
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</xml><![endif]--><font size="4"><i>mi
gráša</i> or <i>mç gráša</i> using English spelling conventions<font size="4">.
<i>Mi</i>, in this instance, <font size="4">appears to be</font> 'one', as in the Kansa (Kaw) personal name
<i>Mi<font size="4">-</font>dayinga</i> '<font size="4">furious one' (referring to a wounded raccoon<font size="4">, i.e., in this case, a m<font size="4">ember of the raccoon clan). I'd have expected
</font></font></font></font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><i><font size="4">w</font>ç</i><font size="4"> in Osage for 'one', but
a mishearing as <i>mi</i> isn't out of the question. The term could also have been
<font size="4">borrowed into Osage from Kaw just to the North. In any event, the use of 'one' as a head noun in this case follows Dhe<font size="4">giha naming practi<font size="4">ce, even though<font size="4"> it follows the noun when it functions as an
indefinite article</font>. So </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><i>mç
gráša</i><font size="4"> is '(some)one English', whereas </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><i>gráša-mi
</i>would be 'an English something<font size="4">-or-other' or</font> 'English woman'.<br>
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