prairie - plains

Rory M Larson rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu
Tue Feb 3 23:58:11 UTC 2004


I asked one of our speakers last night what the Omaha
for 'prairie' was.  She couldn't think of it at the
time, but called me back this afternoon after consulting
with two other speakers.  The word they came up with is
xa'de-maNz^aN', literally 'grass-land'.  I don't recall
if this was mentioned before in the discussion.

Rory



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