Caddoan 'corn'

[Anthony Grant]

And don't forget Adai <ocasuck> 'corn', one of the few Caddoan-looking
words in the Adai list.....

Anthony

>>> rankin at ku.edu 02/12/2004 19:43:15 >>>
I certainly would never presume to have any command of Caddoan
historical phonology, but whether or not the final syllable is
reconstructible from the set, I'm quite convinced of a Caddoan source,
either direct or indirect, for the Biloxi and Ofo words for 'corn'.

> As for 'corn', I tend to be a little skeptical of "boxcar
reconstructions".
In any case, I'm pretty sure the last syllable of Caddo kisi? isn't
cognate
with the endings of the Pawnee, Arikara, and Wichita words. Those
endings
correspond quite regularly to a Caddo noun suffix -?uh, not to -i?.



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