Tywappity Bottoms

[CATCHES VIOLET]

I am curious about this one.  Is there any yellowish ground around it?
Zee-Owapi-Ekta, any Siouan languages have this habit of short cutting, oops,
maybe I should use linguistic terminology...but anyway, it looks like
ziwapita, there at that place where the yellow paint can be found.


UNSHIKICHILA PI!

napsha miye


"We come to this world with nothing, we leave with nothing, live your life
in a manner that shows
compassion, mercy and love...wa-unshila pi!" an
ancient Lakxota grandmother





>From: Michael Mccafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: Siouan <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Subject: Re: Tywappity Bottoms
>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:49:05 -0500 (EST)
>
>Alan,
>Just a couple of observations.
>
>Given the date that "Ze-wa-pe-ta" was transcribed, it is most likely a
>word written down by an English speaker. Therefore, the final -a of
>"Za-wa-pe-ta" is probably /i/. As you probably know, English speakers
>commonly heard native /i/ as /e/ and then wrote the latter vowel as an a
>in keeping with the pronunciation of the first letter of the alphabet.
>This would be why "Tywappety" has a y at the end. In other words, there
>*is* a neat correspondence between, at least, the end of those two words.
>
>In this connection, the penultimate -e- in both terms is probably /i/,
>reflecting the pronunciation of E is in the English alphabet.
>So, the last three syllables of this place name are probably
>/-wa(a)pi(i)ti(i)/.
>
>The discrepancy between the initial T- of "Tywappety" and the initial Z-
>of "Ze-wa-pe-ta" is bizarre and suggests a scribal error.
>
>Michael
>
>On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Alan Hartley wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know the origin of the name Tywappety (Bottoms), given a
> > town on the Mississippi in SE Missouri in 1797? When the village was
> > founded c1790, it was called Ze-wa-pe-ta, which looks quite a bit more
> > Siouan. It was apparently (the Web link is now dead) shown on an 1824
> > map as Tywapatia.
> >
> > Thanks for any hints,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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