Pigs

[Anthony Grant]

In a pig's eye, say I.  I be forms of caballo are more widespread.  They
crop up in Pidgin Delaware, Wichita, and just about any language whose
speakers interacted most closely with hispanophones, including
Karankawa. In fact, fors of the word for 'horse' are the single
Karankawa ter that occurs in the greatest number of Karankawa sources.

Anthony

>>> rood at spot.Colorado.EDU 14/04/2004 18:50:20 >>>

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.
>