More bears.

[Mark Awakuni-Swetland]

01 March 2001

The Stabler lexicon glosses

lion             wanita waxa        greater animal  (1977:113)

elephant    tibaxiatha            push over house, referring to its strength
(1977:67),
                                                as taken from Fletcher and
La Flesche (1911:103)

giraffe        pasiata wathate    (1977:85)


A couple years ago elders at the UmoNhoN Nation Public Schools had provided
a term for hippo, but I've momentarily misplaced it.

Sorry, no tigers in Omaha country... although niashiNga hiNshkube (hairy
man/bigfoot) has been sited recently.

uthixide

-----Original Message-----
From: Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: More bears.


>On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, RLR wrote:
>
>> > What about lions and tigers? (that's me playing the straight man for
>> > someone else)
>>
>> Hmm, good question. All I know is 'elephant' in Kaw, which is wakkaNda
>> xoje-ttaNga 'great gray god'.
>
>Omaha has nitta ttaNga 'big beast' for 'lion'.
>
>JEK