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.