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

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.
[snip]

> 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
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Dirk Elzinga
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