sunflowers

[Carolyn Quintero]

The Osage miihtoNeli is miiN 'sun'  +  toNpe truncated to toNe ' look at,
see, watch' + 
alí 'return here'


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Rankin, Robert L
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:53 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: sunflowers

All,
 
I've had an enquriy from an archaeologist at Florida State U. about the
words for 'sunflower' (Helianthus).  The comparative dictionary lacks any
general term for the plant or its flower although there is a cognate set for
its root, which was eaten.  The archaeologists are interested in the seeds
and the domestication of same.  They're trying to determine whether the
terms are similar in North America and Mexico, as there is some question
whether Mexican and northern domestication of the seed plant were
independent developments.
 
As far as I can tell there is virtually no uniformity across Siouan.  Here
is what I have thus far:
 
Hidatsa:  ma:pha:      'day+flower' or 'morning flower'
Mandan:  ma?pe?     'day+flower' or 'morning flower'
Dakota:  waxcazi thaNka  'flower+yellow big'
Kansa:   mittogaxle   'sunflower'  mi 'sun+?'
Osage:   miihtoNeli  'sunflower'  mii 'sun+?', also
                xlazi            'flower+yellow' in term for August.
Ofo:         i:la akikcehi 'sun+flower' possibly calqued from English?
 
Does any one of you have additional terms?  We ought to be able to find
words in Crow, Ioway-Otoe, Omaha-Ponca and Winnebago-Hocank at least.  Since
probably every one of the above terms is simply descriptive, it seems likely
that they won't find matches with any Mexican words.  Any additional help
would be appreciated.   
 
Thanks,
 
Bob


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