Tywappity Bottoms

[David Costa]

So far I only have it in Gatschet's and Dunn's notes from the late 1800's.
Miami-Illinois speakers might not have known about the animal until they
went to Kansas and Oklahoma.

Dave

>> 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.