Digest urth.v004.n015

Kevin McGuire · 02 Sep 1997, 18:47 · from urth-v0004.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin McGuire" <kmcguire at itw.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v004.n015
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 18:47:43 +0000
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]

> Thanks for your offer to look up names, but I don't think the Abenakis, a
> Maine Algonkian tribe, will be much use. I don't think the names are
> Algonkian any more. Or Iroquois. Or Sioux. Sigh. Give it a whirl, though.
> Moose (or elk)=3DNashwonk;
> deer (or antelope)=3DLenizee; wolf=3DWiggikku; pig (boar)=3DPanagiku; lio=
n=3DKetin.

Well, no dice.  I checked Vol. 1 of the Western Abenaki Dictionary,=20
by Dr. Gordon Day, and given your caveat about the spellings looked=20
as widely as I could, but nothing seemed to correspond - some of the=20
combinations don't even seem to be sounds that the Western Abenaki=20
used with any frequency.  The closest match was wigkannid "the one=20
who likes to travel" and perhaps wigkikan "liking to plant, sow" -=20
but I think you would be hard pressed to make these work.

Cheers,=20

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