calumet de paix

[Rankin, Robert L]

This is interesting.  I wonder if these verbs are related to the
Kansa/Osage verb /ibache/ /ipache/ (both langs. Have aspirated /c/
here)?  It is the name of the clan that 'lights the sacred pipe'.  The
sound correspondences don't quite match.  The final vowels are different
and the Dhegiha stop is definitely aspirated, but the semantics are
quite similar -- just a different instrumental prefix.

Bob

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From: bi1 at soas.ac.uk [mailto:bi1 at soas.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:54 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: calumet de paix


Back on the pipes, there is a verb given by Buechel as  iyataN or
iyathaN 'to touch the pipe with the lips'.  I have always presumed this
to
be iyathaN like eyuthaN 'to touch', but have seen both forms.  Does
anyone know?

Bruce