land=mother

Wallace Chafe chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Thu Aug 22 17:58:31 UTC 2002


Yes, ina? is the speaker's mother, while sa:sin? is somebody else's mother.
My thought has been that sa:sin? is the earlier Caddo word, and that ina?
developed from the practice of making captive women into Caddo mothers.
Since the Osages were the prototypical enemies of the Caddos, I thought
that Osage might be the best source. (?)
Wally



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