Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/wį(y)ą
Proto-Siouan
editNumeral
edit*wį(y)ą
- one (1)
Usage notes
edit- This is one of two words for "one"; the other is *nǫ-/*rǫ- (“one”).
- Whether a daughter language uses wį or wą as its indefinite article "depend[s] on whether or not the language has metathesized the vowels of *wį(y)ą".[1]
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Robert Rankin, A Relic of Proto-Siouan rǫ-/nǫ- 'one' in Mississippi Valley Siouan