Is the name Junktapurse actually Siouan?

[Bryan James Gordon]

Actually, this one looks promising to me. The words you give, in the
opposite order, chokita-phasu, could wind up sound to a 200-year-old
English speaker like Junktapurse.

- Bryan James Gordon

2010/10/23 Scott Collins <saponi360 at yahoo.com>

>
> Junktapurse, this is the name that has been given to the town that Fort
> Christanna was built. I began wondering about the origin of the word,
> however as it does not fit the known words of the Tutelo-Saponi language.
> For instance the word horse, chokita, comes from the word dog, choki. The
> word for head is pha or phasu. Therfore in order for Junktapurse to have
> meant horsehead the name would have to have been Pha-chokita or
> Phasu-chokita.
>
> So where did they get Junktapurse from?
> Is this word yet again an Algonquin word?
>
>


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University of Arizona
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