The Medó is a wild potato; it resembles the sweet-potato in top and taste. It grows in bottom-lands, and is much prized by the Dakotas for food. The "Dakota Friend," for December, 1850. (Minn. Hist. Col.)
The meteor—Wakân-denda—Sacred fire.
Me-tá-win—My bride.
The Via Lactea or Milky Way. The Dakotas call it Wanágee Tach-ánku—The pathway of the spirits; and believe that over this path the spirits of the dead pass to the Spirit-land. See Riggs' Tah-koo Wah-kan, p. 101.