'eight' some more

[R. Rankin]

No, it's the variety of Jackalope that lived on the Ohio River in proto-historic
times.  Attested from fossil remains of the horns and large fan tail of the male
of the species.

:-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Hartley" <ahartley at d.umn.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: 'eight' some more


> Michael wrote:
>
> > Linguistically speaking, Marquette’s <MONS8PELEA> consists of two
> > elements. The first is Old Illinois /mooswa/‘deer’, phonetic
[moonswa]~
> > [moonzwa].
> ...
> > <-pelea>, the second segment of <MONS8PELEA>, is transparently Miami-
> > Illinois /pile:wa/‘turkey’.
>
> Nice analysis, but wouldn't 'deer-turkey' be a very peculiar construction?
>
> Alan
>
>