Iskousogos (Re: Siouan etymology?) (fwd)

[David Kaufman]

I was wondering this myself.  As far as I know in Cherokee, de- or te- is inanimate plural suffix and ani- animate plural, such as te-tlukv (trees) and ani-asgaya (men, people).  Not sure how this compares to Mohawk, Seneca, and its other cousins farther north.

Dave

Wallace Chafe <chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
I haven't been following this very closely, but I don't know what led
someone to think of -g- as an Iroquoian plural.
Wally

> I received this from an archaeologist on this matter of "Iskousogos".
> Any comments? Thank you.
>
> ==============================
>
> Couple things here of possible relevance. First is that I think that
> there is a very good chance that what most have read as IskoUsogos in the
> original (handwritten, of course) document (Gallinee) is in fact
> IskoNsogos (have you every seen the original? I haven't). And if it is
> actually Iskonsogos then the resemblance to Escansaques is even more
> striking. But a fly in the ointment is that I've always assumed that the
> -g- in I(s)konsogos was the Iroqouis plural (and the -s- of course French
> plural), and if the -g- was added by the Iroquois, then what is it doing
> showing up (as -q- in Escansaques) out in the southern Plains?


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