Siouan and Iroquoian "buffalo"

Wallace Chafe chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Mon Oct 25 15:57:07 UTC 2004


Seneca for buffalo is degiya'goh (accent on a and nasalized o). Apparently
this comes from *yotekriya'koh or something similar. Cayuga and Onondaga
have similar words. It isn't clear what the word means.
Wally



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