arapaho? name inquiry (fwd)
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Dec 14 19:52:04 UTC 1999
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> According to my Cheyenne dictionary, the Cheyenne word for elk is mo?e'he
> (with the question mark representing a glottal stop).
Looking further in the draft file I see I should have given the following:
\c mo'[ehe
\e *elk
\co for some speakers this word is sg., pl., & obv.; for others m~o'e is
sg.; possible pl. for some speakers mo'[eheo'o pl.
The '[ is the glottal stop, or perhaps high pitch, glottal stop. The
mysterious ~ is middle pitch. I think ' is high pitch.
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