PMV 'coyote' [was RE: coyotes]

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

It also resemnbles the 'jump' root -psic^a-
Bruce
On 24 Jul 2002, at 11:03, Koontz John E wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 bi1 at soas.ac.uk wrote:
> > I was interested to hear about -sic^a for 'small'. Presumably this is
> > also the explanantion of mag^aksic^a 'duck'.
>
> I suspect so, though I can think ofa folk explanation or two that would
> ignore the k.  The -ksik- (Da ksic^a) 'small' stem shows up here and
> there.  Lipkind points out ksik in Winnebago as a sort of diminutive, and
> the coyote set I posted seems to have it throughout MV, though in many
> cases reduced to -si or -<th>i. It may mean 'slender' or 'gracile' or
> something like that instead.
>
> > Maybe mi'c^[h]aksic^a is also the real origin of mayas^lec^a by a
> > sporadic sound change.
>
> I'll have to leave that to the Dakotanists.
>
> JEK
>


Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS