Original meaning/use of Lakota term Wateca?

[ROOD DAVID S]

Yes, the "t" is aspirated, and in Lakota it also means 'young' or 'new'. 
I've never figured out the semantics that relates it to 'leftovers', but 
I'm tempted to think the morpheme break might be other than we expect. 
Could it be related somehow to "wa-yute" 'eat intrans' (surface wote)? 
The aspiration on the "t" is not explained by that, of course.  Can it be 
morphologically analyzed differently in any other language?


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Rankin, Robert L wrote:

> Well, if it's cognate with Omaha /ttega/ it is.   Bob
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> Bob wrote:
>> The Dakota specialists on the list can probably give a much
>> better answer to your question, but I thought I'd mention that
>> the related word in Kaw and Omaha, "tega" means roughly 'new',
>> 'something new' -- which seems almost the opposite of 'left overs'.
>> Interesting meaning shift.
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> The t in wateca is aspirated then, correct?
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> Rory
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