(O)maha

[Alan Hartley]

> It suddenly occurred to me, speculatively, that the truncation of initial
> O in Omaha might be either this form of affective truncation or, equally,
> it might be the result of taking it to be aux 'at the'.  I don't know that
> Omaha is ever attested in the early accounts.

The earliest I've seen with O- is
1814 H. M. BRACKENRIDGE Views Louisiana I. vi. 76
"Mahas, (or Oo-ma-ha) Reside on the Maha creek."

This doesn't seem like "aux" to me.

Alan