oak (-tree)
Alan Hartley
ahartley at d.umn.edu
Sun Mar 28 19:34:01 UTC 2004
Alfred W. Tüting wrote:
> Can anybody tell me whether or not an expression for 'oak (-tree)'
> exists in Dakota/Lakota? Up to now I couldn't find any. Had it been left
> behind in the forests of their earlier history and been forgotten?? In
> Algonquian this word seems to still exist (although I can't remember it).
Ojibway mittikomi:z^ < mittikw- 'tree, stick, wood' + -mi:z^ '(nut- or
berry-bearing) tree'
Alan
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