Tywappity Bottoms

[Michael Mccafferty]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, David Costa wrote:

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> > I should add that <Ze-wa-pe-ta> would not be Miami-Illinois,
> > however, since "wapiti" is not the term in that language for 'elk'. In
> > Miami-Illinois word for 'elk' is /mih$iiweewa/ (older form) and
> > /mih$iiwia/ (later form).
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> Tho it *is* the Miami-Illinois term for the pronghorn antelope. Two variants
> are attested: /waapitia/ and /waapitiaata/.


:-) !!


But I wonder how old the term for pronghorn antelope is. Do we have it for
the 18th-century French sources, or did it come into the language in these
people's transmississippian times.

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> But the first syllable is STILL a problem.
>
Yeah, but as noted, there is good evidence for the loss of the initial
syllable of 'yellow'.

Michael


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