Proverbs

[ROOD DAVID S]

I have been reading the "proverbs" exchange with interest , thinking I
have nothing to say about it.  But I'm also grading some text analyses
done as course projects by my students this semester, and look what turned
up: the end of the story "Turtle", no. 13 in Deloria's published
collection, goes like this:
	"Whenever someone pretends to hold back from the very thing he
wants, the Dakota saying runs, "Like a turtle about to be thrown into
water."
	In the Lakhota text, there is a word that would likely be glossed
something like "proverb", namely "wo'eye".  Deloria's gloss is "(prover ?)
saying".
	I haven't followed very closely the discussion of what constitutes
a proverb, and maybe this is more a "cultural insider's allusion to some
well-known fact" than a real "proverb", but it's close.
	David


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
Campus Box 295
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu