Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/wi-hų́te

This Proto-Siouan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Siouan

Alternative forms

  • *wa-hų́te

Etymology

The prefix could be either be *wi- (animate absolutive) or simply *wa- (absolutive).

The Ohio Valley proto-form seems to have been contaminated with Proto-Siouan *wąthó (“grizzly bear”).[1]

Noun

*wi-hų́te

  1. black bear

Descendants

  • Crow-Hidatsa:
    • Crow: buushí
  • Proto-Mississippi-Valley:
    • Proto-Dakota:
      • Dakota: húte
    • Proto-Chiwere-Winnebago: *(wV-)hų́te
      • Chiwere: mų́ǰe
      • Winnebago: hų́ųč
  • Proto-Ohio-Valley: *mų́•ti
    • Proto-Biloxi-Ofo:
      • Biloxi: ǫti
    • Tutelo: mų•ti

Synonyms

Notes

  1. ^ Oliverio, Giulia R. M., Rankin, Robert L. (2003) “On the Sub-grouping of the Virginia Siouan Languages”, in Blair A. Rudes and David J. Costa, editors, Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr., Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, pages 165-180

References

  • Rankin, Robert L., Carter, Richard T., Jones, A. Wesley, Koontz, John E., Rood, David S., Hartmann, Iren, editors (2015), Comparative Siouan Dictionary‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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