ASB puza

[David Costa]

I was speaking imprecisely. I didn't mean to say that Ojibwe DID give the
word to Dakotan; I meant that in my experience, when there appears to be
borrowing back and forth between Dakotan and Algonquian (there isn't much),
Ojibwe is the Algonquian language. As for this particular case, I'm
perfectly prepared to believe Dakotan borrowed it from English.

Dave


> 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.
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> Michael McCafferty
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>> 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
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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:
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>> >> 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
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>> >> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Wablenica wrote:
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>> >> > I wonder what can be the origin of ASB puza/buza "cat"
>> >> >
>> >> > http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/n_audio/n_alphabet/buza.wma
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>> >> > 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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