Moon phases

[A.W. Tüting]

That's what Bruce is giving in his dictionary:

wit'e [wit?é] - new moon ('dead moon')
wi lechála (lecála?) - early crescent moon
wi ókhiseya - first quarter moon (but Buechel: wíokhiseya(?) - okhíseya 
- half)
wi mimákanyela [wi mimákxaNyela] - full first quarter moon (B: monn 
between First quarter and Full Moon, i.e., when it is gibbous)
wi mimá - the Full Moon
wi makatahan [ wi makxátaNhaN] - full third quarter moon (B: the moon 
between Full Moon and Third Quarter)
wi yaspapi [wi yas^pápi] - third quarter moon (B: wíyas^papi(?))
wi t'inkta kanyela [wi t?íNkta kxaNyela] - moon between third quarter 
and new moon ("near to be dying")
(kok'eluta [kok?éluta] - full moon red in the morning)

Alfred

Am 08.11.2006 um 02:49 schrieb Jonathan Holmes:

> Can anyone translate for me the Lakota names for the moon's phases? 
>
> Euro-Americans see the moon - and identify the phases as:
> New Moon
> Waxing Crescent
> Half Moon
> Waxing Gibbous
> Full moon
> Waning Gibbous (the other half)
> Half moon (the other half)
> Waning crescent (The other half)