Quapaw designation (fwd)

[Rankin, Robert L]

That's funny.  My recollection was that it was Ives who told me what I
passed on here.  Maybe at different points in his thought processes, or
maybe it was Dave Costa or someone else, but it came from an
Algonquianist.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Hartley [mailto:ahartley at d.umn.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:34 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Quapaw designation (fwd)


R. Rankin wrote:

> The initial A- in the
> Algonquian borrowings of it is a reflex of Algonquian short */o/ that
> becomes /a/ in Illinois.  It's used with a number of ethnonyms
> including the O- of Ojibwe.

The O- in Ojibway may actually be part of Proto-Algonquian *wet- 'pull',

as in Cree oci-pw- 'shrink' (per Ives Goddard), with reference to
puckered mocassins, rather than of the ethnonymic prefix we(t)-. Ives
says the latter is used only with (originally) locative (or similar)
expressions, and not always then.

Alan