Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/ophÉ
Proto-Siouan
editEtymology
editFrom *o- (locative prefix) + *phÉ (“to tread/walk”). Compare Catawba pe•ʔ (“to step”).
Verb
edit*ophÉ
- to enter
Descendants
edit- Pre-Mandan: [Term?]
- Mandan: ró•pxekereʔš (“they went in”)
- Proto-Mississippi-Valley: *ophÉ
- Proto-Ohio-Valley: *ophé
References
edit- 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