Tomahittan?

[Rankin, Robert L]

Hi Anthony,
 
The whole idea of the list is to enable us to make equal opportunity twits of ourselves!   :-)
 
The problem is the "chito" part.  Too bad we can't have the Choctaw tamaha (which I've also personally heard as [tomaha] ) and the Ohio Val. Siouan -itan 'big'.  Together they make a beautiful pair.  Short of positing a new Siouan-Choctaw creole, I can't make it work.  My recollection is that the explorers who wrote about the Tomahitans spent some time with them and probably got the name right.  But who knows?
 
Oh, by the way, the message didn't go off-list for some reason.
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Anthony Grant
Sent: Wed 11/9/2005 4:50 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: Tomahittan?



Bob:

could it be a seriuously mangled misspelling of tamaha chito 'big town' in Choctaw?  I'#m sending you this off-list in case it's wrong and I make a twit of myself.

Anthony

>>> rankin at ku.edu 11/08/05 2:46 pm >>>
>I'd have thought that the -y- in Monyton went with the Moni- part?

It goes with both parts actually.  maNniN + ithaN.

I've discussed Tomahitan with Ives and neither of us has an etymology for it.  The H is in the way of considering it Siouan "Big Town".  Toma also passes for Choctaw 'town', but hitan doesn't ring any Muskogean bells with me.  Nobody really knows who these folks were.

Bob



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