Another Proto-Mississippi Valley *py Set

[Mary Marino]

John,

What is the CSD?

                 Mary

At 10:46 PM 10/4/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I just happened to notice this *py set, not in the CSD:
>
>PMV *pyo (?), *pyu (?)
>
>IO pyu'braN 'mint, Indian perfume' Good Tracks
>IO haN'pyubraN 'mint, tall Indian perfume (pink flower)' Good Tracks
>
>NB These forms under 'mint' in the English side of Golod Tracks, but not
>under han- or py- in the IO side.  JEK
>
>OP *ppe.z^e nu'bdhaN "Pezhe NubthoN" 'wild mint (Mentha
>   canadensis)' Gilmore:90
>
>NB The relevant part here is the IO pyubraN compared with OP nubraN.  The
>braN is probably 'to have an odor', however, so really it's just the pyu-
>and nu- prefixal element that interestrs us.  OP u is from PS *o, but IO
>has u here, too, not a perfect match.  I looked around for c^ho- or c^hu-,
>without or without mnaN in Dakotan without finding anything.  Also, no
>dice in Winnebago for *rupaNnaN or *ropaNnaN, and nothing under 'mint' or
>'perfume' anywhere that looked reasonable.  JEK
>
>John E. Koontz
>http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz