Caddo bread

[Anthony Grant]

I stumbled on the etymon when seeing a Pipil example involving tortillas in Campbell, Kaufman and Smith-Stark's "Meso-America as a Linguistic Area", and crosschecked it with Classical Nahuatl forms. Glad you like it!
A

>>> Wallace Chafe <chafe at linguistics.ucsb.edu> 04/02/2010 17:45 >>>
Thanks Anthony. I didn't realize that.

Wally

--On Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:11 PM +0000 Anthony Grant 
<Granta at edgehill.ac.uk> wrote:

> Well, dashkat 'bread' in Caddo is from Nahuatl tlaxkatl (or taxkat in
> some forms), and kwasu 'cloth, clothes' in Karankawa is U-A - maybe
> Comanche, maybe Nahuatl.
>
> Anthony


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