MANDAN redux (was Re: Dakota Band Names and Pomme de Terre)

[Alan H. Hartley]

Koontz John E wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Alan H. Hartley wrote:
> > Thanks for the insight into -aya- / -awa-.
>
> If any Dakotanists disagree, they win, of course.  :-)  I'd heard
> something of this in the past, and I've hard some examples of y-loss
> between vowels in Teton texts that have been played for me, so I was
> interested when I saw in your quotation that the Handbook specifically
> pointed this out.  I suppose they (Goddard, Parks, DeMallie and
> consultants?) were trying to connect the form with "Mandan" specifically.
> I think I may have said something about the possibility of awa > aa,
> perhaps not very clearly in our earlier discussion of this.

The Teton quot. was from Rood & Taylor's Sketch in vol. 17 (not 13) of
HNAI, and it had nothing directly to do with MANDAN.

Alan