Village of Make Believe Whitemen

[R. Rankin]

The root could be cognate with Dakotan /-khota/, as in
dakhota, lakhota, nakhoda, etc.  Other Dhegiha cognates
would be OS -hkoce, KS -kkoje, QU -kkotte/, and, as you
say, IO -khoje.  Probably Hochunk -ko(o)c.  Any items
turn up in any of those languages?

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: "Siouan List" <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Village of Make Believe Whitemen


> On Sat, 7 May 2005, Koontz John E wrote:
>> I've wondered if bikkude might be Ioway-Otoe, e.g.,
>> bikhuj^e would mean
>> 'moon-shooter'.  However, I'm not sure what the
>> implication of such a name
>> would be, and I'm just grasping at straws here.
>
> It should be noted that if we take the form as a
> native Omaha-Ponca word,
> then it would apear to mean 'to perform the action
> (or reach the state)
> "kkude" by pressing'.  However, I have been unable to
> find any other
> examples of -kkude.  The closest is the *-hkut-e stem
> meaning 'to shoot',
> which becomes -kkide in OP by the regular shift of *u
> to i.
>
> In a sense, then, the meaning of bikkude may be quite
> clear, we just don't
> know what it is!
>
> Another possibility is that the word involves some
> fairly sever
> contractions that I'm not picking up on.
>
> Again, I've asked a few people what bikkude might
> mean, but no one had any
> ideas at the time.
>
> I haven't actually looked any of the names up in
> Dorsey's slip file!
>
>