butterfly

[Jimm GoodTracks]

Ioway-Otoe is:  rupáñi  (rupa' n~i).  This would not appear to be similar to
Hochank.
Potawatomi (from Kansas) also have the word:  memíki  (memi'ki).    [From
Jim McKinney's Bwaka Project].



----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Rankin" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: butterfly


> > The question is, of course, whether the
> Omaha-Ponca form is in any way
> > connected.  The -tti- part isn't, of course,
> because tt < *ht, not *t.
> > However, *R merges with *t in Osage, Kaw, and
> Quapaw, and *R becomes n in
> > OP.  So the PDh form might be *RiNdha,
> potentially yielding *nidha in OP.
> > In this context, the ...ninikka part might be
> relevant.  -nikka is
> > 'person, man' in compounds.  I don't think it
> occurs alone in OP.
>
> Seeing /nikka/ as 'man' can be misleading.  One
> has to account for such oddities as Quapaw /ppiza
> nikka/ 'lizard' (possibly 'dry fellow', but that's
> a stretch), /ttitta nikka/ 'blue jay', and
> /z^aNnikka/ 'gnat'.  Then there's Kansa /hazu
> nikka/ 'black [long stemmed] grape', /nikkaphe/
> 'comb', /wakkuje nikka/ 'kind of lark'.
>
> Dakotan looks like it might be at least partly
> borrowed from Algonquian too, then.
>
> Bob
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