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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;"><font size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> I recall John Koontz mentioning some other forms to me – items for ‘cucumber’ from French concombre, and also ttapuska ‘student,
teacher’ which is shared by Dhegiha and Pawnee.</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> I don’t know about ‘hau’ but Comanche ‘aho’ (hello) is supposed to come from Kiowa.<br>
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Allan Taylor did a comprehensive "how" count at one point. I don't think he ever published results though. 'Cucumber' begins with
<i>kko </i><font size="4">the <font size="4">PSI root for 'gourd', so it may be a borrowing or it may be a coincidence again. 'Pig<font size="4">' is definitely from French.</font></font></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> Shankka also has reflexes in Western Muskogean (Choctaw and Chickasaw)</span></font></p>
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<i>čákkáàli</i> and -<i>ali</i> is an ending all right<font size="4">.</font> It is borrowed into Biloxi as
</font><font face="Arial" size="4"><i>čk<font size="4">ane </font></i><font size="4"><font size="4">I think.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4">Note the Tutelo and Ofo terms<font size="4">.
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mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Tutelo has
</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<i>shankka</i> zone. </span><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4">Ofo
</font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><i><b><span style="color: black;">kíštatǝška</span></b></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color: black;"> Sw
</span></i><span style="color: black;"><i>kĭ´ctatạcga</i> — nine;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
</i>p. 325. Some words where </span></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><i><span style="color: black;">š</span></i><span style="color: black;"><font size="4"> is expected turn up with
</font></span></font><font face="Arial" size="4"><i><span style="color: black;">št</span></i><span style="color: black;"><font size="4"> instead. So this may contain some variant of
<i>shankka</i> somehow. <font size="4">The prefix with <i>k</i> mirrors Tutelo to an extent but the sound cor<font size="4">respondences aren't quite right.</font></font></font></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><font face="Arial">So this pecul<font size="4">iar term for '9' turns up in Chiwere, Dhegiha, Tutelo and maybe Ofo. There are partial look-alikes in
<font size="4">Western Muskogean and Biloxi. So it's not just around the Great Lakes region in Siouan, but there's no trace in the Northwest of Siouan.</font></font></font></font></p>
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