Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/-kį

Proto-Siouan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Siouan-Catawban *kį•.

Suffix

*-kį

1. definite marker; the

Descendants

• Pre-Mandan: [Term?]
  • Mandan: -ki (subordination marker)
• Proto-Mississippi-Valley: [Term?]
  • Proto-Dakota: [Term?]
    • Lakota: kį, ki (definite article; subordination marker)
• Proto-Ohio-Valley: [Term?]
  • Proto-Biloxi-Ofo: [Term?]
    • Biloxi: ḳiⁿhiⁿ

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