<div dir="ltr">Hi Bruce, I see on Google Maps that there is a lake called "Wononskopomuc" just south of Lakeville, Connecticut. Does that spelling help? (I don't have Bright's dictionary.)<div><br></div><div>
The <a href="http://usgs.gov">usgs.gov</a> site has a great place-name lookup facility, but it is currently down due to the government shutdown.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, shokooh Ingham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shokoohbanou@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">shokoohbanou@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>Yes, as you say, I am catching up on a huge backlog, all very interesting. I have been over in Connecticut for three weeks and couldn't use the internet for fear of upsetting my hosts computer, both of us being novices. Anyway it's all very interesting. I managed to look up the local mountain range , the takonic range, and found in Bright's dictionary that it is from tahkenek 'in the woods', e meaning shewa, and is probably Mohican. However I was not able to find the local lake 'Lakeville lake', which I was told was called wanonscopamik. It looks like a good Algonquian work, but I couldn't find anything similar in
Bright. Any ideas anyone?</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif"><span>Bruce</span></div><div><br></div>
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</div><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 5 October 2013, 23:19<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> BL and GL initials.<br> </font> </div><div><div class="h5"> <div><br><div>
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I think you must be catching up on a lot of back email. :-)<br>
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As you get more up-to-date I think you'll find the answers to all your questions about these clusters. The back-and-forth went on for quite some time. I collected all vocabulary from Dakota, Omaha, Ponca, Osage, Kansa and Quapaw that has a reflex of Mississippi
Valley Siouan GL or BL. Accent in these words DOES in fact fall on the initial syllable in all but Dakotan, exactly as you predict it should. It's only Dakota that's changed.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 05, 2013 2:38 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Locatives and wa- problems.<br>
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<div><span>I don't get that. If gluha and bluha were three syllables, wouldn't the stress be glUha and blUha rather than gluhA and bluhA?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 9 September 2013, 16:15<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: Locatives and wa- problems.<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial">I think you'd be wrong. By accent placement rules and by morphological analysis the GL and BL clusters count as two syllables. The little phonetic tics are immaterial. Fortunately
or unfortunately the Gs all go back to full syllables, mostly KI while the Bs of the BL clusters all go back to WA or WI. All were morphemes also. Ordinarily the prehistory of these things might not matter, but the accent rules still seem to be able to treat
the Gs and Bs as morae for purposes of assigning stress synchronically. This is especially true of Hochunk which, assuming Ken Miner was right, is a mora counting language. I'm guessing that Dakotan is too.
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