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Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/hká•xi
Proto-Siouan
Noun
*hká•xi
- crow
Descendants
- Possibly Mandan:
- kéka
- Mississipi-Valley: *hká•ɣi
- Dakota: khąğí
- Lakota: khąğí
- → Dhegiha: *hká•ɣe
- Quapaw: kkáxe
- Kansa: kaághe
- Osage: hkáɣe
- Omaha-Ponca: kká•xe
Notes
"An irregular set, influenced by onomatopoeia. Mandan ké•ka ‘raven’ is probably not cognate. KM glosses kaaɣí as ‘raven, Menominee’." [1]
References
- Rankin, Robert L.; Carter, Richard T.; Jones, A. Wesley; Koontz, John E.; Rood, David S.; Hartmann, Iren, editors (2015) Comparative Siouan Dictionary, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology