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Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/hká•xi

Proto-Siouan

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Noun

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*hká•xi

  1. crow

Descendants

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  • Possibly Mandan:
  • Mississipi-Valley: *hká•ɣi
    • Dakota: khąğí
    • Lakota: khąğí
  • → Dhegiha: *hká•ɣe

Notes

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"An irregular set, influenced by onomatopoeia. Mandan ké•ka ‘raven’ is probably not cognate. KM glosses kaaɣí as ‘raven, Menominee’." [1]

References

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  1. ^ 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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