h- vs. x-aspiration in LDN

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Mar 1 05:23:04 UTC 2001


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Bruce Ingham wrote:

> re Arapaho, I have also presumed, on no evidence at all, that it is a
>  rendering into English of Mah^piya Tho.  Am I right or is it from
> some other Siouan language.

Crow has Alappaho', but unless this has some obvious interpretation, it
could be a loan, e.g., from English.  Ala- is one of the instrumentals.

JEK



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