Kaw dogs/horses.
Rankin, Robert L
rankin at ku.edu
Fri Apr 23 18:03:35 UTC 2004
In Kaw 'horse' has taken over $oNge entirely, although there is a
Spanish synonym, kkawaye. 'Dog' is $oNgiidaN, contracted from
$oNge+oyudaN 'dog+pull-on', i.e., the animal used to pull the travois.
This seems to be the common thing in languages -- the new object
requiring a name takes over an older name completely and the object the
name used to refer to gets a modifier or a replacement term.
Bob
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