pomme de terre

[Erik Gooding]

I haven't followed this line closely, this may have been offered up
already, but mdo is the Santee-Sisseton Dakota for of the Lakota blo. I
can't remember the Yankton-Yanktonai form off the top of my head. I'm
digging through my Stoney fieldnotes to see if I can find the form there also.

EG

At 08:09 PM 2/5/02 -0600, Alan H. Hartley wrote:
>Gary Moulton's footnote to Lewis' "common wild pittatoe" (VII.224):
>
>Apios americana..Indian potato, ground nut, potato bean. It grows on the
>banks of streams and floodplains and "is the true pomme de terre of the
>French and the modo or wild potato of the Sioux Indians"... Report of
>Commissioner of Agriculture for 1870
>
>Note mdo.
>
>Alan
>
>