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=Proto-Siouan-Catawban=

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=Proto-Siouan(-Catawban?)=

wirį "water"

 * Lakota:


 * Catawba (unrelated?):

cf. qʷaʔ/*qoʔ, below see list, in the section 'fire', of compound words meaning 'fire-water' which, although they do not themselves derive from Proto-Siouan, are made up of parts which do

wité· "bison/buffalo (cow)"
(alternatively: wihtéː)



(in many languages, the word for "bison/buffalo" shifted to "cow")
 * Lakota:


 * Catawba:

wišúke "dog (horse)"
(in many languages, both Siouan-Catawban and non-Siouan-Catawban, the word for "dog" shifted to mean "horse")
 * Lakota: ?


 * Catawba:
 * (for reference only; unrelated: Catawba )

ruša "wash"

 * Lakota: ?


 * Catawba (unrelated?): (stem), ,

wą́·ke "man; self"

 * Lakota:

wi-Ro "Indian potato"

 * Lakota: ?
 * Dakota: ?


 * Catawba (unrelated?):

ihtó "grue (blue/green)"
(with length marked: ihtóː)
 * Lakota:
 * Catawba (unrelated?): ,
 * Catawba (unrelated?): ,

ahpéte "fire"
(with length marked: ahpéːte)
 * Lakota:
 * Dakota: phéta, pȟéta
 * Tutelo:


 * Catawba:

Compound words meaning 'fire-water' which, although they do not themselves derive from Proto-Siouan, are made up of parts which do:
 * Winnebago pé:j̆-nį́:
 * Ioway-Otoe phéh-ñi
 * Omaha-Ponca ppé:de-ni
 * Kansa ppé:j̆e-ni
 * Osage hpé:te-ni
 * Quapaq ppé:tte-ni

"one"
Two Proto-Siouan roots for "one" can be reconstructed, each one found in one subgroup and almost entirely missing from another:
 * wįyą


 * nǫ(ːsa)/rǫ(ːsa) (importantly, this root also found in Quapaw hi nǫ xtį "once, one time", where -xtį is the morpheme denoting "_ times")
 * Catawba: dəpe, nepeⁿ
 * Woccon: tonne

nupa "two"
(with length marked: nuːpa ... or núːpa?)
 * Lakota:
 * Catawba:
 * Woccon:

"three"

 * Catawba: nomnə, nomnəre

tópa "four"
(with length marked: tóːpa)
 * Lakota:

compare:
 * Catawba: parpre, parprere
 * Woccan/Woccon:

red

 * Lakota:
 * Catawba:

water
Lyle Campbell (1997), citing (Haas 1965): "Proto-Siouan *qʷaʔ / *qoʔ 'water'"

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hų ==Proto-Siouan== ===Alternative forms=== * hun ===Noun=== ====Descendants==== * Hidatsa: * Lakota: , ===References=== * Matthews (1959)
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