SHTUBA inquiry

[Rory M Larson]

I think we may have found it.  Our speaker, who originally didn't 
recognize the word, consulted with her sister and came up with the word 
ishtuba, 'grandchild'.  Then she checked with her brother, who corrected 
her pronunciation to ishtuppa.  At this point I looked up the word for 
'grandchild', and found ittushpa.  So it looks like this is probably one 
of those consonant cluster dyslexia things they do with a few words, like 
bruga / gruba for 'all', and wabagreze / wabragase / wagrabase for 'paper' 
or 'book'.  I don't know how ancient or widespread this ittushpa / 
ishtuba~ishtuppa doublet may be, but the fact that one speaker used it and 
two others recognized it seems to give it some credibility.

Rory





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I can't find any similar form in either Quapaw or Kansa.  I take it that 
it's not in the Dorsey files.  Even so, the word, pronounced shtobe by me, 
somehow rings a bell.  I haven't the faintest idea why, so maybe it's a 
phantasm of my aging brain.  I certainly don't associate it with 
'brother'.

Bob


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From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of Mark J Awakuni-Swetland
Sent: Wed 9/9/2009 8:31 AM
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Subject: SHTUBA inquiry
 
Aloha all,

My elder brother at Macy recently asked if I had heard the term 'shtuba' 
as used by another Omaha relative as the term for 'brother'.

We have been drawing a blank on the word here at UNL.

Does anyone recognize the word?

Thanks,

Mark Awakuni-Swetland


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