Re: VMs: left & right word entropy

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, DANA SCOTT wrote:
> Okey dokey. Might also be a reference to a Turkish game.
> http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Okey.html

has it some meaning in Turkish language?

> 
>   Okeey (afaik "Okey" is a word of American Indians)


but really, is the VMS never tested against tongues of American Indians?
When about "Okay" (in the same meaning as we use it worldwide), I got 2 theories 
about it's origin:
1) From Indian pidgin, used inter(Indian)nationally where today are California, 
Texas, (what more we have there? Oklahoma?), maybe Mexico
2) Maybe initially from Tshoktsho Indians (somebody can probably tell the 
correct spelling in English - could it be "Chokcho"?), who are today still 
quite numerous.

MV

PS
Well, the colonization of the New World could have many interesting, but 
forgotten passages...

PPS
If it's not the "Hohol" language from Eurasian steppe, could it be some
"Okey" language of grasslands (prairie) in another continent?

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