Osage name

[Justin McBride]

I'm not near my Osage names book right now (Louis Burns's "Osage Indian Bands and Clans"), but I can tell you from having researched that book fairly extensively that -walla is a causative form, i.e., -waðe, where ðe is the causative and wa- is doing whatever wa- does (valence reduction).  I've noticed the same phenomenon in old Kaw census data, where the name noNppe-waye ('inspires fear') is written in Agent-ese as No-pah-walla.  Not so sure what olohah would be, though.  Oloha/e?  Aloha/e?  And maybe the l is kl, maybe the h is x... It could be any number of things, I suppose.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jonathan Holmes 
  To: Siouan List 
  Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:28 AM
  Subject: Osage name


  I'm looking for a translation to the name of an Osage man from Pawhuska, OK who lived in the late 1800s.

  The name is Olohawalla. Perhaps seperated as O-Lohah-Walla.

  Could anyone help with a possible translation?



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