[Lexicog] mis = cat

[Wayne Leman]

Bill, it's even in Cheyenne where the word for 'cat' is "poeso". Cheyennes did have some interactions with S.W. tribes, and half of the Cheyennes still live in Okla. Poeso replaced an older word, ka'enehotame which literally meant 'short-nosed dog' (but the 'dog' is more like 'domesticated animal' when one does historical and semantic analysis of that noun).

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne dictionary online:
http://www11.asphost4free.com/cheyennedictionary/default.htm



  Once you get into North America north of the Southwest, you get
  words for "cat" that seem to be based on "puss(y)", with /m/ instead of
  /b/ or /p/ in some languages. Up in the Northwest, where labials are
  scarce, some languages have forms like /du:s/.

  Bill


   
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