Another Sahaptin - CJ cognate

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Tue Feb 13 18:37:08 UTC 2001


> PS--the Sahaptin word for "black bear" is given as /yaka/, so now I'm
> guessing that the placename Yaka in that region isn't Jargon ("His hill" or
> "his creek" always sounded suspect)!

And Nez Perce yá:ka7 [? = glottal stop] (from Aoki).

Alan



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