ASB puza

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>:

> As this list's resident lurking Algonquianist I don't have too much to add,
> except that indeed, the Proto-Algonquian word for 'bobcat' was */pe$iwa/ ($
> = s-hacek). It has an impeccable Algonquian pedigree (no pun intended), but
> it's even closer to English 'pussy' in certain daughter languages, such as
> Penobscot /p at so/ (@ = schwa). In the language that would have given it to
> Dakota, namely Ojibwe, it's /bizhiw/.
>
> best,
>
> Dave Costa
>

As this list's non-resident (homeless) yet lurking Algonquianist, I'd have
to question whether in fact Ojibwa donated the term to Dakota. Certainly a
possibility but not necessarily a foregone conclusion.

Michael McCafferty




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> >From: ROOD DAVID S <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>
> >To: Koontz John E <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
> >Cc: Wablenica <wablenica at mail.ru>
> >Subject: Re: ASB puza
> >Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2003, 7:49 am
> >
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> >
> > I am pretty sure that this word for 'cat', which recurs in many North
> > American languages with minor variations, is English 'puss' or 'pussy'.
> > Why the /s/ is voiced in ASB I don't know -- Linda?  Certainly
> > "pusila/pusida" is from that source.  So ASB is "cognate" in a strange
> > sort of way, in that both words derive from the same lending language.
> >
> > David S. Rood
> > Dept. of Linguistics
> > Univ. of Colorado
> > 295 UCB
> > Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> > USA
> > rood at colorado.edu
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> >
> >> I imagine Dave Costa might be jumping in here as soon as the West Coast
> >> wakes up. I always defer to him in these matter. However, "puza/buza"
> >> looks like it could be a borrowing of a reflex in some Algonquian
> language
> >> of Proto-Algonquian */peSiwa/  'lynx, wildcat' (S = sh)
> >>
> >> Michael McCafferty
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Wablenica wrote:
> >>
> >> > I wonder what can be the origin of ASB puza/buza "cat"
> >> >
> >> > http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/n_audio/n_alphabet/buza.wma
> >> >
> >> > Is 'pusida' in some D-dialects a cognate of buza or a borrowing of
> > English "pussy" + dim.
> >> > -da(n) ?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> > Constantine
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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