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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