Siouan and Iroquoian "buffalo"

[Marianne Mithun]

The other Northern languages, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, etc. have words
based on the same stem as the Seneca, so not like Cherokee.

Marianne

--On Monday, October 25, 2004 8:57 AM -0700 Wallace Chafe
<chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> 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
>