horse paper

[Michael Mccafferty]

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.
>
> - Joel Schudlich
>

A parallel case might be made in the case of  Miami-Illinois /mahweewa/
'wolf', an animal known to Algonquians from day one, and Miami-Illinois
/lenimahwia/ 'real wolf', the term for "coyote," a prairie animal that was
not there from day one.

Michael