U.S. President (fwd)

[Koontz John E]

I asked David Costa and Michael McCafferty about 'president' in Algonquian
languages.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:57:15 -0800
From: David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
To: Michael Mccafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>,
    Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: U.S. President (fwd)

/meetaahtsoopia/, actually. Means 'government', mainly. It literally means
'ten-sitter'. It has straight cognates in Fox and Ottawa, so it's not just
some perverse Miami fluke, either.

Next question: I have NO IDEA why the word for 'government' should be
'ten-sitter'.

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