butterfly

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 lcumberl at indiana.edu wrote:
> Now John's gone and mentioned 'raccoon' - the Lakota is wic^a or
> wic^iteglega, which I recall Ella Deloria saying somewhere refers to the
> human-like appearance of the raccoon's face, something like 'spotted man
> face'.

Wouldn't 'striped' make more sense?  This might violate the normal
translational sense of glega, but we've seen examples of that sort of
thing recently.

> BTW - Asb for butterfly is kimaNmaNna, but other than the
> diminutive/nominalizing -na, I won't venture an analysis.

It's within the range of variation exhibited so far for Dakotan, I think.