Re: Altaic languages

Joe Don Chipps (jdc@onr.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:51:07 -0600

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Ron Petersen writes:

> There is no "NAGILA" in Lakota.

"Nagi" in Lakota refers to the spirit or soul or ghost. The suffix "la"
makes the word superlative. Thus "Nagila" would roughly translate "very
ghostly" or "ghost-like".

Mitakuye Oyasin,

Joe Don Chipps

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