Iskousogos

[Rankin, Robert L]

I somehow thought that was "Wabash" (and Algonquian).   Bob

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From: Koontz John E [mailto:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:00 AM
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Subject: Re: Iskousogos


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> I was wondering if Marquette's 8AB8SKIG8 has any Siouan features. I
> tend to see it as an Algonquian term because of 8AB- 'white', but I
> notice there's a person on the Siouan listserv who calls himself
> Wablenica, which, I presume, is Siouan, nicht wahr?

Well, wabouskigou looks pretty Algonquian to me, too.

/waposke/ (OP wamuske) is a pretty widespread form for 'bread'.  I think
it is attested outside of Dhegiha and even outside of Siouan.  A final
-ku can occur in kinterm possessive paradigms in Dakotan, and there are
various sources in compounds, e.g., ku 'to come back', but I don't think
that's available here.

Wablenica is wa-ble-nic^a [SOMETHING-...]-lacking or 'orphan', a
stative-inflected form.  I presume it could be called a verb, certainly
on morphological grounds.  I don't know what the root sense of ble is.
There is a stative verb blec^a 'poor'.

The comparable Omaha-Ponca form for 'orphan' is wahaNdhiNge, analogous
in form.  I'd assume haN was from (i)haN '(his/her) mother', though I
think I remember someone having a different insight into it.