Lakota names for other people

[bi1 at soas.ac.uk]

Thanks Richard. I had suspected something of the sort.  Jan Ullrich
suggestes allso that Chincakiza could be from ChaN icakiza and
refer to some sort of musical instrument.  It makes sense as it is
kiza 'creak' not khiza 'fight', although I must say I hadn't noticed
that before.
Bruce
On 28 Nov 2002, at 11:12, rlundy at huntel.net wrote:

>
> 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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Dr. Bruce Ingham
Reader in Arabic Linguistic Studies
SOAS