WINN TERM "FRENCH"
Jimm GoodTracks
goodtracks at GBRonline.com
Wed Jun 1 19:18:24 UTC 2005
There are several ethnic terms in Radin's Winnebago that challenge an
analysis. While I will seek some help with those at some other time, right
now I am perplexed with the term for:
French = Djimoxgemena
I looked in Ken Miner's lexicon to no avail. I looked in Zeps' as well, but
nothing. Mark Swetland offered:
wa'xe ukethiN "white man not strange". I dont see a connection to the
Winnebago.
[QUES: Was Mark going to do a undated Lexicon??}
Riggs offers:
Was^icuNikceka ("common white man" jgt??)
"Everyday Crow" has:
Isb'tchiihachkite which I cannot analyze and looks nothing like the
Winnebago term.
I found nothing in Kanza, and Quapaw only had: is^ta'xe (whiteman).
NONE of the above resemble the Winn/ Hochank version, which remains a
mystery.
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