Partisan

[Alan Hartley]

William Clark records as "Torto-hongar, Partezon (Bad fellow)" the name
of the second chief of a band of Tetons encountered in Sept. 1804.
Moulton, in a footnote says the name may be blotahungka 'war leader'.
Though the context is Teton, Clark's version shows no trace of bl-. Is
inital bl- a recent development in Lakota (or might Clark have got the
name through a non-Teton (but Sioux) interpreter? Riggs has
mde-tang'-hung-ka and Teton blo-tang'-hung-ka 'leader of a war party':
could Clark be recording something like mdotanghungka? (His R's here are
silent, and it isn't surprising that he omits the initial m- and the eng
after the second vowel.)

Thanks,

Alan