'eight' some more

[Michael Mccafferty]

Bob's right. In fact, a recent entire specimen, perfectly preserved, has
been excavated at Big Bone Lick.


On Tue, 4 May 2004, R. Rankin wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>

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