U.S. President

[Lance Foster]

IO is Hintuga/Intuga "my/his grandfather", like John put it. The IO "to cause" is
-hi suffix. Marsh had "(government) official" as wawayin "one sent" (this could be
a messenger or emissary), from Intuga.

You can see the -hi also in "Chief", wangegihi, wange (man) gi (towards it,
referring to it) to cause (-hi), referring to the authority and leadership of a
chief.


-Lance

Koontz John E wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> > A query: what is the word for 'U.S. President' in your Siouan language?  Crow
> > has baa-iila'pxisaahka and Hidatsa has maa-a'arutaahka (in both lgs,
> > indefinite prefix + grandfather).  Is this perhaps a pan-Plains phenomenon?
>
> In Omaha-Ponca "President" (and other major government officials) was
> ittigaN=...dhe 'his/her grandfather' + 'to cause' in Dorsey's time.  I
> don't know if things are more specialized today.  The agent was
> idhadi=...dhe 'his/her father' + 'to cause'.  The 'to cause' possessive
> construction occurs in Dakotan, Omaha-Ponca (all Dhegiha?), and Winnebago
> with kin terms.  I don't recall if it occurs in Ioway-Otoe, too.  I
> suspect from contexts in the Dorsey texts that in OP it marks what might
> be called ostensive kin, e.g., relations under the pipe dance, or cases
> like this:  what might be called treaty relationships.  In Winnebago it's
> the only construction for kin possession, I think, and is used with an
> incorporated root 'living' for possession of animals.  (Which ties in with
> 'pet' possession investigations of the late Wick Miller.) Two further
> Omaha-Ponca examples are e=...dhe 'relative' = 'the aforesaid (or maybe
> just he/she/it)' + 'to cause' and ikhage=...dhe 'his (not her) friend' +
> 'to cause'.
>
> JEK

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