Companion Terms for 7 and 8 (Re: 'eight' some more)
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Mon May 10 03:46:16 UTC 2004
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Mary Marino wrote:
> 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^.
I meant to ask about the final -G in these numerals. What does it
represent?
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