clouds in Stoney

[Erik D. Gooding]

Here are the cloud terms I collected for the two Stoney dialects:

Mountain: ohanthi
Forest: Ohazi

I didn't collect terms for president, since all Stoney live in Canada. I
guess I should have asked for a term for Prime Minister, but I didn't. The
word for queen  I got from one person  was wiNyahuNga ''woman-beloved"

Erik


At 08:27 AM 02/15/2001 -0600, Richard L. Dieterle wrote:
>Here are some forms from Winnebago:
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>maNxi, sky, clouds, heaven, air
>maNghira, the sky [Tiver-Radin]
>maxi wange'ja, heaven, sky ("sky above") [Gatschet]
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>The following forms are interesting because -wi also happens to be the plural
>suffix:
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>maxiwi,	cloud, clouded sky [Gatschet]
>maxiwi, ka-a	that cloud [Gatschet]
>maxiwi nige,	"piece of cloud" (lit., "cloud  forming") [Gatschet]
>maNxiwi,	cloud [Radin-Marino]
>maxiwixiwi,	cloudy [Gatschet]
>MaNxiwimaniga,	He who Walks in the Cloud, a personal name in the Bird Clan
>[Radin]
>MaNxiwiwak'anjaNk'a,	Sacred Cloud, a personal name in the Bird Clan [Radin]
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>The Winnebago also have another word for cloud that also seems to mean "sky":
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>ke(ra), (the) cloud [Radin-Marino]
>K'eratcosepga,	Black Sky (the firmament), a personal name in the Bird Clan
>[Radin]
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>The last seems to come from k'era, "the sky," tco, "blue," and sep, "black,"
>with -ga indicating a personal name.
>
>Sometimes the sky is denoted in the following way:
>
>tcora,	sky ("the blue") [Radin-Marino]
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