Pigs

[R. Rankin]

I don't think kkokko$a, etc. are based directly on "cochon".  A more colloquial
reduplicated form is favored.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Mccafferty" <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Pigs


> Thanks for the information.
>
> What's interesting, at least to me, about this is that the phonologically
> salient part of the French word for pig, "cochon," that would be the
> source of these borrowings is /$o~/, not /ku$/ ($ = sh, o~ = nasalized
> /o/). Maybe the first Frenchmen who used the word with native folks said
> it slowly.
>
> Michael
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, ROOD DAVID S wrote:
>
> >
> > Allan's article was published in Anthropological Linguistics 32
> > (1990):187-210.  It's entitled "A European Loanword of Early Date in
> > Eastern North America.  He says it's the most wide-spread loanword on the
> > continent.
> >
> > David S. Rood
> > Dept. of Linguistics
> > Univ. of Colorado
> > 295 UCB
> > Boulder, CO 80309-0295
> > USA
> > rood at colorado.edu
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Koontz John E wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, R. Rankin wrote:
> > > > It was Allan Taylor at CU.  I don't remember where he published it, but
no doubt
> > > > someone will.  A large number of us contributed data for it.
> > >
> > > It is not in the Siouan bib page at
> > > http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/siouan_language.html that John Boyle
> > > maintains.
> > >
> > > Search the Web with Allan Taylor pig cochon, or consult the MSA annual
> > > indexes and/or Bibliographie Linguistique, the last two being the more
> > > reliable technique, but not always the fastest.  Allan also has an article
> > > on horse terms, I believe.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
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>
>
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