ASB puza

[David Costa]

[Sorry for the prolonged non-Siouan digressions here...]

It's also seen in Ottawa /wiikwe/ 'bay' (from Rhodes' dictionary).

Anyway, I thought of that comparison too, but that initial doesn't mean
'bottom'. It actually seems to mean 'corner, cove, angle', as in those last
two Ojibwe examples. In old Illinois it's seen in:

8ic8egamik8i 'le coin, l'angles de la maison'
8ic8egami8i 'anse de riviere, enfoncement'
8ic8eki8i 'enfoncement de la prairie, maniere d'anse'

This last form, phonemic /wiihkweehkiwi/, gets translated in modern Miami as
'bay, cove, bayou, bottomland'.

Either way, it's not equivalent to English 'bottom', so I don't see how it's
cognate with /wiikweepin$ia/ 'lynx'.

David



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>From: "Alan H. Hartley" <ahartley at d.umn.edu>
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: ASB puza
>Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 7:06 pm
>

>> What other words have that initial?
>>
>>>In passing, the /wiikwee-/ may actually be /wiihkwee-/, referring to the
>>>*bottom* of things.
>
> (Lake Superior) Ojibway:
>
> Nichols & Nyholm:
> wiikwe-gamaa 'be a bay' (also as placename 'Fond du Lac')
>
> Baraga:
> wiikwed 'bay'
> wiikweya 'there is a bay'
> wiikwe-gamigak aki 'in a corner of the earth'
> wiikwe-ssagak 'in a corner of the room'
>
> Alan
>