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

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 Rgraczyk at aol.com wrote:
> > 'seven'   *s^aako'wiN
> The Crow forms are:
> sa'hpua 'seven'
>
> Bob's covered this territory before, of course, but I was misremembering
> when I said I thought there was nothing similar in this range in CH and
> Mandan.

It was the Mandan forms I had glanced at.  But looking at these tonight I
remembered that kuu'pa 'seven' is perhaps comparable to *s^aako(o)wiN or
*S^aakwaN ~ *s^aakpaN.  It's just missing the initial s^aa.  I think that
was a point made by Rankin and Zeyrek (which is buried somewhere in my
file boxes).  Why I can remember this and not the Wichita thing for Osage
'eight' I don't know.  I don't like the hypothesis that comes to me, which
is that my mind is no longer remembering new things.