240 ETHNOGEOGRAPHY OF THE TEWA INDIANS [eth. anx. ;!9 



[14:70] Seco Arroyo, see [15:26]. 



[14:71] (1) K'apO'y,ywi of obscure etymology (k'apo unexplained; 

 'fiywi 'pueblo'). Although a lai-gc number of Tewa Indians have 

 luMMi questioned concerning the etymology of this name and 

 although what are apparently cognate forms of the name occur in 

 other Tanoan languages, JC'apo has withstood up to the present 

 time all attempts to explain its meaning. Both syllables are 

 long in the Tewa form of the name; the first sj'llable has level 

 tone and the second syllable circumflex tone. The syllable k 'a 

 with level tone has no meaning in Tewa. Neither k'a 'corral' 

 'fence', ^' 'a 'weight' 'heavy', k' amis II:' a 'eyeball' {tsi 'eye') 

 nor^'a'" 'wild rose' 'rose' 'any rosa species' is identical with 

 the syllable h'a'in K'apo. The second syllable of A"V/pf<, namely 

 po, is even more perplexing. It has the circumflex tone, as said 

 above, and is identical with Tewa po 'trail' 'road'. The seem- 

 ingly cognate Jemez form of the name (see Jemez (.">), below) has 

 as its second syllable the Jemez word pa ' water', cognate with 

 ■ Tewa po 'water'. The quoted Taos, Picuris, and Isleta fonns 

 seem to show pa 'water'. Tewa has besides po 'trail', also po 

 ' water ' and po ' moon', each of these three words having a difl'er- 

 ent tone. The etymology of the name K^apo is not known either 

 to the Tewa or to the Jemez. If a Tewa Indian is asked to give 

 the meaning of K'apn he couples either ' corral ', ' heavy ', ' sphei'i- 

 cal', or 'rose' with either 'trail', 'water', or ' moon'. Some of 

 the fancied etvmologies formed in this way are very pretty. 

 Thus he maj' render the name by 'rose-trail' 'spherical moon' 

 ' heavy water '. One informant was strongly in favor of ' corral 

 water'. An investigator at Santa Clara Pueblo writes: " I asked 

 . . . what Kapo meant . . . He answered without hesitation 

 'dew' (Span, rocio) — what comes in the night and looks pretty in 

 the morning." This Indian had chosen the meanings 'rose-water' 

 and construed them as the water on rose plants, that is, 'dew', the 

 similarity in sound between Span, rosa ' rose' and Span, rocio (c 

 in New Mexican Span. = .y), ' dew ', perhaps, helping along this ety- 

 mology. In a later letter the same investigator writes: " I have 

 discovered that the Indians do not know the meaning of K'apo.'' 

 The writer is hopeful that a thorough study of the forms of the 

 name in the Indian languages in which it occurs, other than Tewa, 

 will make clear its etymology. Some of the forms quoted below 

 represent a variant pronunciation, JCapo'". It is possible, but 

 hardly probable, that the name of a former Tano Tewa pueblo, 

 Bandelier's "Ka-po", etc. [29:unlocated] is the same. Cf. this 

 name, and also Kapo, name of the pueblo ruin [14:71], which is, 

 of course, entirely distinct. The present pueblo [14:71] is said to 



