Appendix talk:English dictionary-only terms of Native American origin
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox in topic Created wiskinkie
For wenona, the most likely etymology I've seen is that it comes from Lakota (deprecated template usage) winúŋna. Are you able to verify this? --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:33, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't see this until now; I don't get an orange "you have messages" alert for subpage comments.
- FWH derives it from Santee (*)winona "first-born daughter", and Edward Callary (Place Names of Illinois) and several baby-name books derive it from the Lakota (*)winúŋna "first-born daughter" you cite, all of which verifies that it derives from Sioux. I haven't been able to verify a specific etymon in a Siouan source, though: I checked a Lakota dictionary which supposedly includes Santee terms as well, but the closest terms it has are wihákakta (“youngest daughter, last-born girl”) and witȟókapȟa (“oldest daughter”). - -sche (discuss) 02:47, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hmm. I'm not sure exactly what specific conclusion to draw from this. Thank you for checking, though. (And if you want to add anything on to Winona#Etymology per this discussion, it definitely needs it!) --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:28, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
- (...much later...) I finally found into some more info about this in the process of researching the Siouan numerals. - -sche (discuss) 18:04, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
This form at least (not sure about the -y form) seems likely to be CFI-attestable. Equinox ◑ 18:46, 14 February 2022 (UTC)