Partisan

[R. Rankin]

> > could Clark be recording something like
mdotanghungka?

I don't see why not.  If he really heard it from a
Teton speaker, you might expect bl-, but, as you
say, it could have been from a D-dialect
interpreter.  The *wR- sequence is quite variable
across Mississippi Valley Siouan.  Reflexes of the
*w are often missing and the *R evolves regularly
into [l, d, t, n] at least in different
languages/dialects.  At some point there may have
been variability within Teton too.

Bob