Re: Shoshoni words

At 11:49 AM -0800 03/18/02, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>
>>  At 6:31 PM -0800 03/15/02, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>>  >Dirk,
>>  >
>>  >Thank you for the info, I will try to track them down. I did find on
>>  >online Shoshoni-English "dictionary", more like a glossary, and I managed
>>  >to get a few words out of it. Here they are, as they are found in Madzhi:
>>
>>  I'm guessing that this was the Shoshoni language home page hosted at
>>  Idaho State University. Beware of the orthography! It's only used at
>>  Ft. Hall, and is not phonemic, unlike the orthography used at Duck
>>  Valley and Goshute. Here are the phonemic and phonetic forms in
>>  X-SAMPA where I've been able to find them.
>
>I can't remember now where I found them, but note that the forms I
>presented were in the form they appear in Madzhi!
Oh. Don't I feel foolish now :-).

Don't forget the sego lily, then. It's Utah's state flower, and the
term is a Goshute loan word /siko:/ [siGo:]. The relation to pasikoo
'camas root' is not accidental; pasikoo is merely the 'water' sikoo
(water = pa(:)).

>---ferko

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Dirk Elzinga                  Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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