School: ttappuska

[Wallace Chafe]

It strikes me as extraordinarily peculiar that people on this list don't 
know Doug Parks's address: parksd at indiana.edu. Doesn't anybody belong to 
SSILA? Hasn't anybody been in touch with Doug on other matters? He is 
hardly the mysterious figure these messages imply.

Wally

--On Friday, July 23, 2010 1:17 PM -0500 "Jimm G. GoodTracks" 
<jgoodtracks at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yes, it is in IOM:  wo'guNdhe "where you learn s.t.; wagu'Ndhe(mi)
> "teaches/ shows s.t. (fem).  From:  gigu'Ndhe  (point; show; indicate).
>
> The word in Pawnee is correct, but I am unable to give an anylisis.  Doug
> Parks is at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.  Sorry, I don’t have his
> em-address at the moment.  jgt
>
>
>
>
> From: Rory M Larson
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:37 PM
> To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
> Subject: School: ttappuska
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking at the Omaha term ttappuska, presently meaning
> 'school', but apparently meaning 'schoolteacher' in the 19th century.  It
> also appears in Osage, in both the La Flesche dictionary and in Carolyn
> Quintero's recent "Osage Dictionary", where it is listed as taapo'ska.  I
> think is nicely analyzable in Dhegiha, but Carolyn's entry has the
> bracketted note:
>
>   [Borrowed from Pawnee taapuska 'school' (Douglas Parks).
>    The Pawnee word may have entered Osage at different times
>    in different forms, with or without preaspiration of the
>    stops (h)t and (h)p and with a long or short vowel aa
>    or a; it is losing or has lost the preaspiration in
>    (h)t and (h)p.]
>
> This claims that the term is actually a loan from Pawnee.  I'm wondering
> if Douglas Parks is on the list, or if anyone knows how to get in touch
> with him, or if anyone else on the list knows Pawnee well enough to
> comment?  Is the word analyzable in Pawnee, and if so, what is the
> meaning?
>
> Also, I'd like to know how widespread the term is.  Does it exist in Kaw?
> Iowa-Oto?  Ponka?  Any other language?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Rory