Saponi Word For Medicine

[Rankin, Robert L]

I think I discussed the relationship among the terms for 'sacred', 'god', 'medicine' and 'snake' in that paper I coauthored with Giulia Oliverio in the Frank Siebert Festschrift.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU on behalf of David Kaufman
Sent: Sat 1/16/2010 2:28 PM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: Saponi Word For Medicine
 
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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