Water monsters

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Jan 29 21:42:57 UTC 2002


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> I am assuming that there is some additional material at the beginning of the
> Crow form, perhaps bilV or balV.  ...

> If the beginning of the Crow form was bil-, it could be bili' 'water' .
> Otherwise I don't have any good guesses right now.

This, with the vowel assimilation to the initial u of hypothetical uksaa,
as Randy suggests, might account for the form buluksaa fairly well.

JEK



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