Missouri, etc.

[Michael McCafferty]

From: "David Costa" <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Historical questions
Date: Thu, Jan 1, 2004, 11:07 am



>Thanks, David!  That's a big help!  Is there a reference or anything for
>Michael's article?

Well, Michael himself might want to provide this, but he could be offline
due to the holidays, so it is:

Michael McCafferty. 2003. 'On the Birthday and Etymology of the Placename
Missouri'. Names 51.2 (June 2003): 31-45.

Michael discusses this name in much more historical detail in his article,
but the general connection between 'Missouri' and /mihsoori/ has been
recognized for quite some time. It's mentioned on page 461 of HNAI volume
13, but it was known way before that as well. I have no idea who might have
mentioned it in print first. Maybe Michael would know?


MM: I follow Lounsbury’s in dealing with native place names, and nothing I
read in the earlier descriptions of “Missouri” satisfied Lounsbury’s
requirements for **historical and linguistic accuracy**. That is why I wrote
a new piece on “Missouri”. I’m not aware of who first wrote about the place
name.

Michael

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