Sacred Syllable

[Lance Foster]

And IO   k'o  for "thunder (rumbling)"

Lance

"Rankin, Robert L" wrote:

> > ... Omaha text where the earth says 'ku'' as it brings forth
> > some rocks.
>
> ORdinarily this couldn't be related to Winnebago /gu/ since Omaha /u/ is
> invariably from /o/ (and actually pronounced [o] about half the time in my
> Omaha notes from ca. 1973). Nor can Winnebago /g/ be related to Omaha <k>
> (/kk/), only to Omaha /g/. So the Omaha reflex for the WI sacred syllable
> ought to be /gi/ if no sound symbolism is involved. I haven't run across
> anything suggestive in my own work, sorry to say.
>
> In this particular term though, I think probably <ku> is the standard root
> for 'make a hollow sound' that is found in 'drum, box, cucurbit, etc. Kind
> of makes sense that the earth might rumble when coughing up rocks. Winnebago
> should have /ko-/ for that root.
>
> Bob

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