Saponi Word For Medicine

[rankin at ku.edu]

It is "moka".

Medicine has nazalized vowels.  I would phonemicize it as [maNkaN].  Sacred has an oral 1st syll.

Bob
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan James Gordon <linguista at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:51:49 
To: <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: Re: Saponi Word For Medicine

I think the word for "medicine" has the "mysterious/sacred" morpheme in most
Siouan languages, so yes you're probably right Dave!

2010/1/16 David Kaufman <dvklinguist2003 at yahoo.com>

> Scott,
>
> Not sure how much help this is, but Biloxi medicine is 'tixi' which I
> assume to be related to your Tutelo te:si:, although in Biloxi yo is body
> (or meat), not tixi.  Phi in Biloxi is also 'good', but I don't recall
> seeing that used with tixi in the Biloxi data.  I actually wondered if the
> -xi ending of tixi was actually the word for 'mysterious' or 'sacred.'
>
> Dave
>
> --- On *Sat, 1/16/10, Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Saponi Word For Medicine
> To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 1:02 PM
>
>
> I can not seem to find a word for medicine in Saponi so wanted to get your
> opinion about this follow set for the word.
>
>
> ya- = progressive aspect
> pi: = good
> te:si: = body
>
> Together it is ya-te:si:pi
> or it could be ya-te:si:ipi:
>
> Is this correct?
>
>
>
> Scott P. Collins
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