Re: Polynesian and South American place names

From: t(nospam)kavanagh (_at_(nospam)indiana.edu)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:47:59 -0500

Yuri Kuchinsky wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> As all anthropologists and historians know, geographical
> place names have a tendency to persist over the centuries,
> and often even over the millennia.

<snip>

Yuri:

You will please provide proper citations for this claim.

I am an anthropologist and historian--of which you are neither--and I
know of no such claim in either anthropology or history.

If you have specifics, please produce them.

At the same time, I have recently become aware of a traditional Comanche
name, /kwinamiaru/ 'walking eagle', /kwina/'eagle', /miaru/ 'to walk'. I
was not aware of it in the historical record, but when I asked some
Comanche friends, they replied, "Oh, yes, its a metaphor: it means he's
so full of *** he can't fly."

tk

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