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Re: CHAT Stambul (was: A new version of Genesis)

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 16:25
On Jun 16, 2004, at 6:59 AM, John Cowan wrote:

> When the famous Captain Cook first saw Hawaii and Tahiti, he > transcribed > their names as "Owhyhee" and "Otaheite". This initial "O" is the > reflex > of the pan-Polynesian word "'o", meaning (in this context) something > like > "This is", "Voila". It's ungrammatical to use a bare noun as a > sentence; > the "'o" must be prefixed.
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> Owyhee County is in southwestern Idaho, named after a river (a > tributary > of the Snake) which was in turn named after three Hawaiian fur trappers > who died there in 1819.
The tribal headquarters of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation (Shoshoni and Northern Paiute) is located in Owyhee, NV. It is literally a stone's throw away from the Idaho border; I stood in the parking lot of the tribal headquarters and lofted a rock into Idaho just to see if I could. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu "I believe that phonology is superior to music. It is more variable and its pecuniary possibilities are far greater." - Erik Satie