wild cats etc
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 18 22:00:49 UTC 2002
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Anthony Grant wrote:
> RE: the Dakota form for 'white man', I have heard (possibly from you, John)
> that there have been folk-etymological attempts to link it up with a word
> meaning ' be evil'.
Not me I think. Or, if I knew of this, I'd forgotten. Possibly s^i'c^a
'bad'? But I think if you added ?uN 'do', you'd have to change c^ (< *k)
to l. However, as soon as I start forming new words in Dakotan, my
fundamental ignorance of the language shows.
> I've also heard Wasichu used as a term for whites among
> Indians who are not Siouan but who have an interest in Pan-Indianism.
Evangelical Dakotanism.
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