ASB puza

[Michael McCafferty]

Oh, this is *very* interesting, and even better.

There was a famous cove in the Wabash known as /pin$iwamootayi/, the 'cat's
belly'.
This place name subsequently gave its name to the stream running into the
cove, which today is known as Wildcat Creek.

Michael




>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: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:28:21 -0700
>
>[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
>
>
>
>----------
> >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
> >

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