early loans in Dakotan

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Mon Sep 17 23:02:38 UTC 2001


> Siebert suggested that an Algonquian term for tamarack was borrowed into
> Dakota.  It's slipping my mind at the moment

Dakota (Riggs) s^iNtá 'tamarack' < Algonquian (cf. Proto-Alg. s^enta
'evergreen tree') (Siebert 1967 p. 27)



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