Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/rǫ-

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

Etymology

Alteration of earlier *nǫ-; see there for more.

Numeral

*rǫ-

  1. alternative form of *nǫ-

References

  • Robert L. Rankin, Richard T. Carter, A. Wesley Jones, John E. Koontz, David S. Rood, Iren Hartmann, editors (2015), “Entry #519”, in Comparative Siouan Dictionary[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Rankin, Robert L. (1988), “A Relic of Proto-Siouan *ro/no 'one' in Mississippi Valley Siouan”, in Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics[2]