(O)maha

[R. Rankin]

It would be a-maha as in A-kans(e)a.  I sometimes wondered if some of those
explorers and early cartographers (many of whom were safely home in Europe)
might have occasionally confused (O)maha and Pawnee Mahas.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: (O)maha


> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> > Marquette wrote < Maha > on his map of the Mississippi, a name he got from
> > the Illinois-speaking Peoria.
>
> Perhaps I am looking in the wrong place.  Could the deletion of initial o-
> in an ethnonym have anything to do with Miami-Illinois morphology?
>
> JEK
>