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Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Nov 23 07:06:27 UTC 2004


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Marianne Mithun wrote:
> The Cherokee form looks like a lot of words through Iroquoian and beyond
> for 'robin', one of those words that turns up all over the continent.
> Mohawk for 'robin', for example, is tsiskó:ko.

Or Osage s^iNkkokkoke 'robin', cf. the robin's alarm call, characterized
in birding guides as teek-tuk-tuk.



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