ASB puza

[Michael McCafferty]

>From: "David Costa" <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: ASB puza
>Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:47:17 -0700
>
>Don't forget /waapipin$ia/, literally 'white cat', a term that Albert
>Gatschet got in the late 19th century, which he gives as 'white aquatic
>monster, traveling by electricity', and 'a mythic white monster, thought to
>be a whale by most Indians'.

Number 7!

>
>There's no evidence that /wiikweepin$ia/ was ever a term for an underwater
>panther; it's just the name for the Lynx, AKA lynx canadensis.
>

Actually, there is good evidence for this. See the Illinois-French
dictionary (a.k.a. Gravier dictionary) entry
<8ic8epichia>, which reads "8ic8epichia /vide/ akimareni8a".

In passing, the /wiikwee-/ may actually be /wiihkwee-/, referring to the
*bottom* of things.


Michael


>Dave
>
>
> > Our Siouanist friends may be interested in knowing that in
>Miami-Illinois we
> > have (at least) six terms for the Underwater Cat:
> >
> > /mih$pin$iwa/ 'great cat', /araamipin$ia/ 'underwater cat',
>/ariimipin$ia/
> > 'within-cat', /akimarenia/ 'chiefman', /lenipin$ia/ 'original or
>ordinary
> > cat' (this is a late historical form) and the one you mentioned the
>other
> > day whose meaning we don't know, /wiikweepin$ia/  '?-cat'

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