WINN TERM "FRENCH"

[R. Rankin]

That's right.  I forgot about that discussion.

So what would /jimaNhoxge/ be then?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: "Siouan List" <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: WINN TERM "FRENCH"


> 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.
>
>