Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/sará•

This Proto-Siouan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Siouan

Noun

*sará•

1. grease

Descendants

• Crow-Hidatsa: *cará•
  • Crow: taláa
  • Hidatsa: caráa
• Mississipi-Valley: *srá
• Hoocąk-Chiwere: *srá
• → Dhegiha: *sRá-re

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