Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/wi-hų́te

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

Alternative forms

  • *wa-hų́te

Etymology

The prefix could be either be *wi- (animate absolutive prefix) or simply *wa- (absolutive prefix).

In Proto-Ohio-Valley, this term appears to have been conflated with *mų́·thi (“grizzly bear”, from Proto-Siouan *wąthó), likely due to semantic overlap.[1]

Noun

*wi-hų́te

  1. black bear
    Synonyms: *wąthó, *wa-sápE

Descendants

  • Proto-Crow-Hidatsa:
    • Crow: buushí
  • Proto-Mississippi-Valley:
    • Proto-Dakota:
      • Dakota: húte
    • Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere: *(wV-)hų́te
      • Chiwere: mų́ǰe
      • Winnebago: hų́ųč
  • Proto-Ohio-Valley: *mų́·ti
    • Proto-Ofo-Biloxi:
      • Biloxi: ǫti
    • Proto-Tutelo-Saponi:
      • Tutelo: mų·ti

References

  1. ^ Oliverio, Giulia R. M.; Rankin, Robert L. (2003), “On the Sub-grouping of the Virginia Siouan Languages”, in Blair A. Rudes and David J. Costa, editors, Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr., Winnipeg: Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, pages 165-180
  • Robert L. Rankin, Richard T. Carter, A. Wesley Jones, John E. Koontz, David S. Rood, Iren Hartmann, editors (2015), “Entry #1125”, in Comparative Siouan Dictionary‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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