wapato (again)

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Sun Jan 27 00:36:40 UTC 2002


Perhaps only coincidence, but note m ~ w
Tualatin (northern Kalapuyan) mámpdu ~ CJ wapto

It could represent a borrowing of the whole word, though Henry Zenk
brought to our attention the possibility that Proto-Kalapuyan *pdó' [' =
glottal stop] was borrowed by Chinookan which attached its prefix wa-.

Henry, what's the mam- that seems common in Tualatin?

Alan



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