anunk - nupa

[CATCHES VIOLET]

FOR WHAT ITS WORTH
ANUKXA means 'at each end' on each side think of all the situations that can
have two opposite ends
san means whitish, like in elders hair when it finally all gets that certain
color
hope this helps,
Violet

>From: "Alfred W. Tüting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: anunk - nupa
>Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:23:48 +0100
>
> >I'm not exactly sure if the k in the Lakota word for 'bald eagle' is
>aspirated -- off the top of my head, I don't remember an aspiration here,
>but I could be wrong. [...]<<
>
>I didn't regard it as an aspiration here either, but thought of
>[anuN'k-h^a-saN], raising the problem of what is meant by [h^a'].
>The (common?) translation by "white on both ends/sides" doesn't seem to be
>too convincing given that the bird's head and neck being white on top and
>all around (and not only "on both sides/ends"). Can it be that _ha_ [h^a']
>is some - maybe abbreviated - form I'm too awkward to retrieve in
>dictionaries?
>
>Alfred
>

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