WINN TERM "FRENCH"

[Koontz John E]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, R. Rankin wrote:
> The sequence -MO- shouldn't be possible in this language.  It would need
> to be either /maN/ or /muN/, and the latter is very uncommon in Siouan
> languages.  So what does MO represent here?

Henning Garvin neatly explained Winnebago mo(o)- as maN + ho, e.g., moowe
'to walk, follow a path' < maNaN + howe, the latter cf. OP uhe, Os ops^e,
etc.

See
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0401&L=siouan&P=R17876.

I'm not sure if that works with mo Radin's Djimoxgemena 'French', but it
works with moo- in Miner pretty well.