Lakota names for other people

[rlundy at huntel.net]

All,
It appears that "susuni" could be from "susu nice" which means "he
who is without testicals" but it could be a linguistic coincidence
and not Lakhota derived at all.
Richard C. Lundy

---- Original Message ----
From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: Lakota names for other people
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:59:05 -0000

>Does anyone have any explanation for the names Susuni
>'Shoshone' and ChiNcakhiza 'Apache'. Is Susuni and Shoshone the
>name of the people for themselves, because I have seen other
>native names for them.  If not, presumably we got Shoshone from
>Susuni, which looks like an uncomplementary epithet in Lakota.
>ChiNcakhiza seems to be formed from ChiNca 'child' and Khiza
>'attack', but isn't readily interpretable. Usually Lakota names for
>others are fairly transparent. Any Lakotas ot Lakotanists on the
>line who might know?
>
>Bruce
>
>Dr. Bruce Ingham
>Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
>SOAS
>

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