Loans Back and Forth: 'bow'

David Costa pankihtamwa at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 11 20:58:30 UTC 2005


What about Biloxi and Tutelo?

>> I may have missed something here. Is "bow" reconstructible for Proto-Siouan?

> No.  The terms in Mississippi Valley Siouan are ALL borrowed from Algonquian
> either directly or indirectly.  Chiwere/Winnebago look like Menomini, Dhegiha
> looks like Illinois.  So the term isn't even reconstructible to MVS as
> different versions were borrowed in each of the major subgroups.  Tutelo also
> borrows the term (translated 'gun' in lists).  The Ofo term, $leka, is
> unidentifiable.  I don't know about Crow, Hidatsa or Mandan.

> Bob



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