h- vs. x-aspiration in LDN

[Rgraczyk at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/28/01 10:24:13 PM Mountain Standard Time,
John.Koontz at colorado.edu writes:


> > 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
>
>

I think you can make a case that Arapaho is a Crow or Hidatsa word.  The
derivation that is usually given is alappe' 'tattoos' + aho' 'many, much'.

Randy
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