Tomahittan?

[Rankin, Robert L]

I'm starting to have second thoughts.  How widespread is the term in Algonquian?  Bob

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Subject: RE: Tomahittan?



Please excuse the fog, but is Potawatomi /odan/ and the like in Algonquian a
borrowing from Siouan?

Towns were historically, its seems, a southern phenomenon.

Michael

Quoting "\"Alfred W. Tüting\"" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de>:

> > The word for 'town' in OP is something like ttaN'waNgdhaN.  The ttaN'waN
> part of that is the root word for 'town', and seems to be used
> separately in naming specific towns.  I've never been too sure what the
> gdhaN is about.  My best guess has been that it indicates something
> inanimate fitting or sitting in a certain area.  I'm don't know whether
> any other Siouan languages use an equivalent with the basic 'town' root. <<
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> Since 'town' is _otunwahe_ [otxuN'wahe] in Lakota (B. gives it in a
> somewhat more etymological sense as "a cluster of houses, a village, a
> town...") I'd also regard the idea of _gdhaN_ indicating smth like
> 'sitting', 'standing' of inanimates not too farfetched: this is _haN/he_
> in Lakota.
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> owotetipi wanzi han (sic!) he? - Kal wiglioinazin kin hel isakib wanzi
> he (sic!).")
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