Companion Terms for 7 and 8 (Re: 'eight' some more)

[Mary Marino]

Fr Valentin Vegreville gives the form caGuweG  for "seven".  (His head
entry is Sept, ou sept fois)  (G = g with a superscript dot, which I take
to be a velar fricative)    He compiled his 'Lexique' , seemingly, in
1876-77 when he was at the Lac-Ste-Anne parish in Alberta.  The form is
presumably Stoney, though he himself uses the term Assiniboine.   "Six ou
six fois"  is caGpeG.   His <c>, by the way, = s^.

         Mary





At 10:31 AM 5/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I'll add to John's list below that the Assiniboine word for 'seven' is
>iyu's^na.
>  Here's Deloria's comment (1936:6): 'Iyu's^na indicates 'one odd one'.
> There is
>an Assiniboine stickgame, called Iyu^na, in which seven sticks are used as
>counters; and the odd one is the determinant of the game's outcome."
>
>I've never had that confirmed by any of my consultants, and I'm not sure
>whether
>Deloria intends this as an explanation of the origin of their word for
>'seven',
>or as an example of its application. The word does not seem to be related to
>Lak. iyu's^la/Dak. iyu's^da 'scissors'. The Asb word for 'scissors' is
>iNca's^na
>or mas?iN'yukse.
>
>The numbers 1-10 are otherwise as in Lakhota.
>
>Linda