horse paper
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Apr 21 23:54:17 UTC 2004
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 jschudli at indiana.edu wrote:
> So horses are "dogs" and actual canine type dogs are "real dogs". I'm sure
> there are other introduced items that follow the same pattern as well, but I
> can't dredge them up from memory at the moment.
OP: tta' 'deerlike animal' ('ruminant' is the fancy gloss)
tta'=xti 'deer' = 'real deer'
PpaN'kka 'Ponca'
PpaN'kka=xti 'subclan of one of the Ponca clans' = 'real Poncas'
(I think there are some other lexicalized =xti 'real' forms, but I'm
forgetting them.)
A similar pattern:
ni'kkas^iNga 'person' (historically 'little person'?)
ni'kkas^iNga ukke'dhiN (kk?) 'Indian' = 'common variety of person'
wa(a)'xe 'whiteman'
wa(a)'xe ukke'dhiN (kk?) 'Frenchman' = 'common variety of whiteman'
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