Re: CHAT: "boocoo"
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 17:00 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:27:47PM -0400, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> > On the other hand, I don't know how we got "Cherokee" ['tSEr\@ki]
> > out of "Tsalagi" /tsAlAgi/,
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> That one is easy - it went the other way round
Oh! So "Tsalagi" is the word "Cherokee" mapped into the Cherokee sound
system, which doesn't have /r\/ (or /S/ or /k/, apparently), and
we got "Cherokee" from the Creek (while getting "Creek" from someone
else. Lovely.) So does anyone know how close "Cherokee" is or isn't
to the original Creek word?
Thanks!
-Mark
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