anuNg - nupa

[Koontz John E]

Posted for David, who is having computer troubles.
-----Original Message-----
From: David S. Rood [mailto:rood at colorado.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:48 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: anuNg - nupa


Regina,
    Buechel's entries for 'bald eagle' are ambiguous (plain k, no
diacritic), but he has an aspiraction mark on anukhataN 'on both sides'.  I
would be very suspicious of relating this to nupa 'two' because I'm not
aware of any p>k changes this unconditionally.  I have always assumed that
this was the first word in the "Double Face" name, as you said.
    David


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of REGINA PUSTET
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:03 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: anuNg - nupa


>I always imagined that _anung(k)_ [anuN'g] was composed of a-nuN-k
>where the center part derived from _nupa_ [nuN'pa] -> nub -> num [nuN],
>the initial part is _a-_ (on, upon) and the _-g/k_ ending might be the
>remaining rest of some truncation process. Hence, 'on/from both sides' (?)

>Only recently, I was pondering on _anunkhasan_ [anuN'kh^asaN]
>'Wei_kopfadler' where _anunk_ and _san_ seem pretty obvious, whereas the
>middle part _ha_ [h^a] - to me - is not. Any hints?



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. My Lakota speaker, on at least two occasions,
etymologized anuNk[h?]asaN 'bald eagle' as 'white on both ends/sides', which
is semantically very appropriate, of course.



I'm pretty sure that I have heard the form anuNk[h?]a-taN 'from both sides'
sometime. -taN means 'from', and my guess is that anuNk[h?]a- is the full
form of the lexical root that appears in truncated form in the name for
Deloria's mythical character AnuNk-Ite 'Double FAce' and in other compounds.
Thus: no need to analyze -[h?]a, at least for now, unless someone else comes
up with compelling reasons for treating -[?]a as an independent element.



Regina






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