Indian perfume set.

[R. Rankin]

Sorry -- I don't think I included the whole
cognate set for Kansa 'onion' : Lakota
'sweetgrass'.

Kansa /maNz^aNghe/ : Lakota /wachaNgha/.  That
would be common Mississippi Valley Siouan
*/wayaNghe/ with a meaning involving some smelly
plant.  All but the final vowel a/e correspondence
is completely regular.

My /gh/ is IPA gamma, Lakota orthographic "g".
Nasalization with upper case N.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Marino" <mary.marino at usask.ca>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:51 AM
Subject: RE: Indian perfume set.


> I'm not crazy about it either, and I have looked
at a lot of "sound
> symbolism"  (consonant ablaut) sets, in both
Dakota and Hotchunk.  /s/ and
> /s^/ do not invariably interact with each other
in c ablaut sets, if I may
> state the obvious.
>
> In these parts, among my consultants,
'sweetgrass' is pez^uta was^temna.  I
> think there is likely to be as much regional
variation is this as in other
> plant and animal lexica.
>
> I don't quite have the hang of e-mail phonetic
orthography in Siouan, so if
> my usage is deficient, please set me straight.
>
>                  Mary
>
>
>
> At 01:57 PM 10/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm not crazy about the semantics if this is
indeed fricative symbolism.
> >There's been quite a bit of innovation in these
sets though.  The Kansa
> >term for 'onion', mazhaNghe, is cognate with
Dakotan for 'sweetgrass'.
> >
> > > On the subject of plants, rice is I think
psiN and onion ps^iN in
> >Lakota (haven't got a dictionary to hand).
This looks like the familiar
> >Lakota sound symbolism.  Does it work that way
in other Siouan
> >languages?
>
>
>