PS *karaN's^ka 'creepy crawly' (mostly frogs)

[David Costa]

Meskwaki & Sauk /konwa:$ke:ha/ 'frog'. The final syllable would be
voiceless, and hence inaudible to many listeners.

>>From what I can tell, this word seems to be found ONLY in Sauk and Meskwaki.

Dave


> From: Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
> Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:09:58 -0700 (MST)
> To: Siouan List <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
> Subject: PS *karaN's^ka 'creepy crawly' (mostly frogs)
> 
> The CSD includes a set - actually glossed 'vermin 4' that is based on
> forms like
> 
> Te  gnas^ka'     (Pre Da *knaNs^ka)
> IO  waagraN'ske
> Wi  wakaNnaN's^ge
> Qu  waxno's^ka ~ wanaN'ska
> 
> These are all 'frog', and require only PMV *wa-kraNs^-ka, but further
> afield we find
> 
> Bi *  kanac^ki 'wood tick'
> 
> I wanted to add a resemblant Algonquian 'frog' word I've run into.  It was
> provided by a Meskwaki aquaintance at work:
> 
> He spelled it ken wa ska and I thought it sounded like [kenwas^k<ae>].
> 
> (I was pursuing my project of looking for possible Algonquian glosses of
> "Tonto." to match those for "Kemosabe.")
> 
> John E. Koontz
> http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz