Word for 'prairie' in Hochunk.

[Rankin, Robert L]

There is the intervening /c/ in 'bow'.  Maybe a relative chronology
problem too.  We have borrowed words two or three times from the same
source at different periods with different phonological results.
Examples like "cap", "chief" and "chef" come to mind.  Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Koontz John E [mailto:John.Koontz at colorado.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:07 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: Word for 'prairie' in Hochunk.


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> Following up on what John said, I'd hazard that Hocangara /mooska/ is
> pretty clearly a borrowing from a neighboring Algonquian language.

It works a bit differently from 'bow', where the -kw appears as -gu.