potato, sweet potato

 

to-ste-te (tostétte)     

 
potato - long Speaker - Maude Supernaw
   
  Speaker - Mary Lane Redeagle
   
  Speaker - Anna Beaver
   
  Speaker - Odestine McWatters

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to-ste-te (tostétte)

potato, sweet, "long potato" (RR-Quapaw)

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

  • to-ste-te (tostétte) - potato, sweet, "long potato" (RR-Quapaw)
  • do-stse-dse (dó-stse-dse) - do, potato; stse-dse, long: the sweet potato (FL-Osage)
  • to-stse (tooscée), to-shtse (toošcée) - sweet potato, yam, literally, long potato (CQ-Osage)

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  • to (to) - potato (RR-Quapaw)
  • nu (nu) - potato, including both the European potato and native potato (Omaha/Ponca)
  • do (do) - potato, before the Irish potato was introduced by traders, the Osage used a wild potato which tastes like a sweet potato (FL-Osage)
  • to (tóo) - tuber (CQ-Osage)
  • do (do) - potato, Indian potato (Kanza)

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  • ste-te (stétte) - tall, long (RR-Quapaw)
  • zne-de (çnede) - long (Omaha/Ponca)
  • stse-dse (stse-dsé), stse-e (stse-e)  - tall, a tall man, long (FL-Osage)
  • stse-tse (scéce) - tall, long (CQ-Osage)
  • stse-je (scéje) - long, tall (Kanza)