[Spam:0005 SpamScore] RE: Tomahittan?

[Alan Knutson]

    Is there a connection to Ojibwa 'odana/odanah'.

Alan K 

>  Note that the Biloxi name also suffixes -yaN, which I'm thinking may
somehow be related to -gdhaN?  
 
I apologize for the cold water, but -yaN isn't demonstrably cognate with
*kraN either.  The BI match for *k(i)r- is /kid-/, possibly reduced
contextually to /kd/.  The *k stays in the cluster.  
 
The BI /taN/ 'town' is probably related to the Dakotan /thuNwaN/, Dhegiha
ttaNwaN, KS ttaNmaN, etc.  Very similar forms are found in Western Muskogean
(not in the East), so the term seems to have been borrowed around a bit, but
it probably originates in Siouan.  By the way, it is NOT related to English
"town" since it is attested in Lakota before close contact with English
speakers and it is attested in virtually all MVS languages except maybe WI.

 
Bob


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