Osage name

[Carolyn Quintero]

othohawathe could be  othahawathe, perhaps.

o'thaha-wa-the

follow- VAL-cause

makes folks/others follow, perhaps a name for a person who 'inspires people
to follow him'.

but the o vs. a in the second syllable of 'follow' is a bit perplexing.

 

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Subject: Re: Osage name

 

HYPERLINK
"http://preview.artstor.org.ezproxy1.lib.ou.edu/SRU/validator.htm?id=%2FzJDc
iJIKTMxKS8wdTs%3D&source=swr&sourceid=I10678"If you check on the Smithsonian
website (HYPERLINK
"http://siris-archives.si.edu/"http://siris-archives.si.edu/) you will find
at least seven (7) photographs of this individual. Smithsonian has it listed
as O-tho'-wa-the, or "Well to Follow".

Also, if I am not mistaken the family has abbreviated the name and now goes
by "Lohah".

Hope this helps.

Tom Leonard

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Justin McBride wrote: 

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. 

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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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