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[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Anthony Grant wrote:
> Dave's thinking of the Allan Taylor article in the Festschrift for
> Christoph Wolfart, which deals with the origin of the word for 'Mexican;
> in Arapaho and Gros Ventre.

For those who don't know it, and without the Gros Ventre forms themselves,
the Gros Ventre term for 'Mexican' is literally 'bread person'.  This is
commonly assumed by speakers to refer to tortillas, but Allan suggests it
is a fossil reference to Paincourt, meaning 'someone from the Spanish city
of Paincourt'.