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Proto-Siouan(-Catawban?)

  • wirį "water"
    Lakota: mni ("water")
    Catawba (unrelated?): ya ye, yehi(ye) ("water")

References[edit]

  • Robert Rankin, The Comparative Method, in The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
  • Robert Rankin, in the Handbook of North American Indians
  • wité· "bison (cow)" (in many languages, the word for "bison" shifted to "cow")
    Lakota: pte- ("cow")
  • Catawba: wide, widʌya, wude ("buffalo, cow")

References[edit]

  • Robert Rankin, in the Handbook of North American Indians
  • wišúke "dog (horse)" (in many languages, both Siouan and non-Siouan, the word for "dog" shifted to mean "horse")
  • Lakota: šuka?
    Catawba: wiit, wiitchawa, witsugwa, witsagwe ("horse")
    (for reference only; unrelated: Catawba tansi, tasi ("dog"))

References[edit]

  • Robert Rankin, in the Handbook of North American Indians
  • ruša "wash"
    Lakota: yužáža ("wash")?
    Catawba (unrelated?): ta(n) ("to wash") (stem), data(n)re ("I wash"), ita(n)re ("they wash")

References[edit]

  • Robert Rankin, The Comparative Method, in The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
  • wi-Ro "Indian potato"
    Lakota: blo?
    Dakota: bdo, mdo?
    Catawba (unrelated?): witeke ("potato")

References[edit]

  • Robert Rankin, The Comparative Method, in The Handbook of Historical Linguistics