(O)maha

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, David Costa wrote:
> I suspect that Illinois speakers were among the first of the central
> Algonquians to encounter many of these Siouan tribes, since in the oldest
> records, Illinois often has Siouan names for these tribes that are later
> replaced by more normal 'Algonquian' names. in addition to these 'Ioway'
> names, another example is the name for the Hochunks; in Illinois, they're
> variously known as <8ndakia> or <8ndankia>, which is clearly the Siouan
> name, but by the 1820's on they're only known by the Miami-Illinois name
> wiinipiikwa.

It's interesting that the "Siouan" name seems to be based on
something like (h)u(N)daNk-, i.e., maybe something like Omaha
hu'ttaNge, instead of Winnebago hooc^aNk.