Sleeps and Winters

[Wablenica]

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:36:25 -0600
>From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
>To: 'Koontz John E ' <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
>Subject: RE: Sleeps and Winters
>
>The Kaws seem to have used omoNyiNkka for 'year' in the Dorsey texts, but
it
>is also used for 'season'.
>
>Koontz adds:
>
>In OP umaN'[dh]iNkka, 'season, year', also sometimes used in counting
>ages.  And I've always noticed maN[dh]iN'kka 'earth, soil'.


Lakhota also has o'makxa - season, year.
I wonder, how/why do these words in Siouan relate to makxa "earth"?


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