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Proto-Dakotan Swadesh list word #65
*Wahurii, boneThis is one of the easier ones to reconstruct, because there are fewer words than languages here, and they are all similar. The word for bone is /Hu/ in Dakota and Hochak, /Wahu/ in Tutelo, Kaw and Chiwere, /Aho/ in Ofo and Biloxi, and /Wahii/ in Quapaw, Omaha, and Osage.
Crow /Hulii/, Hidatsa /Hidu/ and Mandan /Wahuree/ show evidence of the last syllable after the -hu-. I assume this last syllable was /*-ri/ because of the other forms ending in i.
Even Rankin got this one as PS *Wahure (*Wahuree), same as the Mandan word, but differing from my reconstruction only in the last vowel.1 WOCCON ?
2 CATAWBA /Sep/ <?
3 YESAN /Wahu/ <*Wahurii
4 OFO /Aho/ <*Waho <*Wahu ^
5 BILOXI / Aho/ ^
6 QUAPAW /Wahii/ <*Wahu ^
7 OMAHA /Wahii/ ^
8 KAW /Wahu/ ^
9 OSAGE /Wahii/ ^
10 HOCHAK /Hu/ <*Wahu
11 CHIWERE /Wahu/ ^
12 MANDAN /Wahuree/ <*Wahurii
13 DAKOTA /Hu/ ^
14 NAKODA /Huhu/ <*Hu ^
15 HIDATSA /Hiidu/ <*Hiiru <*Hurii <*Wahurii
16 CROW /Hulii/ <*Hurii ^Proto-Dakotan Swadesh list word #66
*Washinri, fatThe term for fat (noun as in lard, animal fat) is /Washiin/ in 6 languages according to my sources: Quapaw, Kaw, Osage, Chiwere, Dakota and Nakota. There are vestiges of a third syllable in Ofo, Biloxi (-ii), the other Quapaw word (-hii), Hidatsa, Crow (-wii) and Mandan (-ree).Based on this I got the proto-form *Washiinrii (Washinri) to mean ‘fat’.
1 WOCCON ?
2 CATAWBA /Nuyenk/
3 YESAN ?
4 OFO /Iitchii/ <*Iishii <*Washnii <*Washiinhii <*Washiinrii
5 BILOXI / Achnii/ <*Washnii ^
6 QUAPAW /Washiin/, /Shiinhii/ <*Washiinhii ^
7 OMAHA /Shiin/ <*Washiin ^
8 KAW /Washiin/ ^
9 OSAGE /Washiin/ ^
10 HOCHAK /Hoshiin/ <*Washiin ^
11 CHIWERE /Washiin/ ^
12 MANDAN /Shiinree/ <*Washiinree <*Washiinrii
13 DAKOTA /Washiin/ ^
14 NAKODA /Washiin/ ^
15 HIDATSA /Shuwii/ <*Shiiwii <*Shinrii <*Washiinrii
16 CROW /Shiiwii/ ^Rankin gave the form as /Shiin/ rather than /Washiin/ for most of these languages, and as a result his version of this proto-word is *Shinre (as in Mandan), ‘fat, tallow’.
Proto-Dakotan Swadesh list word #67
*Winktsa, eggThe Tutelo-Yesan word given for ‘egg’, /Pos/, seems to be connected with the word /Bush/ meaning ’round’ (from *Poroshka).
Catawba /Wo’keno/ may be connected with Catawba /Witkan/, chicken…All the remaining languages have a similar form that I traced back to *Winktsa (or in the case of Quapaw and Mandan, *Wajinkedetska-winktsa, bird + egg)
1 WOCCON ?
2 CATAWBA /Wo’keno/
3 YESAN /Pos/
4 OFO /Intu/ <*Iintii <*Wiinta <*Winktsa
5 BILOXI /Iintii/ ^
6 QUAPAW /Siikwiita/ <*Wiita <*Wiinta ^
7 OMAHA /Weeta/ <*Wiita ^
8 KAW /Iita/ <*Wiita ^
9 OSAGE /Bata/ <*Wata <*Weeta ^
10 HOCHAK /Hiichge/ <*Wiitska <*Wiiktsa <*Winktsa
11 CHIWERE /Iihje/ <*Wiihtsa <*Winktsa
12 MANDAN /Maninka/ <*Inka <*Winka <*Wiintka <*Winktsa
13 DAKOTA /Wiitka/ <*Wiintka ^
14 NAKODA /Wiintka/ ^
15 HIDATSA /Iihka <*Wiihka <*Winka ^
16 CROW /Iihka/ ^Prof. Rankin found most of the related words for ‘egg’ and made of them the proto-form *Itka.
Proto-Dakotan Swadesh list word #68
*Anxee, hornThis one seems easy, since the word is /Hee/ in 7 languages and /Ahee/ in another 2, then there is Mandan /Ansee/ and Hidatsa /Azii/. Of the remaining words, Yesan /Tabiike/ and Quapaw /Deeha/ could conceivably include some part of the same original word, but Crow /Po/ probably has a different origin altogether.
Rankin considered *Ahe (*/Ahee/) to be the original form for “horn”, except for Mandan and Hidatsa, he says are from a different proto-Siouan word */Anshee/ “horn, spoon, shell”. I would still guess there was only one word here originally for “horn”, the evidence of an S sound does suggest *Anshee, but not widespread enough to be certain, so I settled on *Anxee (with a raspy sound)
1 WOCCON ?
2 CATAWBA ?
3 YESAN /Tabiike/
4 OFO /Ahee/
5 BILOXI / Ahee/
6 QUAPAW /Deeha/
7 OMAHA /Hee/
8 KAW /Hee/
9 OSAGE /Hee/
10 HOCHAK /Hee/
11 CHIWERE /Hee/
12 MANDAN /Ansee/
13 DAKOTA /Hee/
14 NAKODA /Hee/
15 HIDATSA /Azii
16 CROW /Po/William Meuse
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