Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan-Catawban/wi-
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Proto-Siouan-Catawban
Etymology
Compare Yuchi we-.
Prefix
*wi-
- A classificatory prefix seen in terms denoting animals, common foods, and natural or weather-related phenomena.
Descendants
- Proto-Siouan: *wité· (“bison, buffalo”) (whence Lakota pte- (“cow”))
References
- Robert Rankin, in the Handbook of North American Indians
- Rankin (1998): "There was a second classificatory prefix, Proto-Siouan-Catawban wi-, Yuchi we-, that marked precisely three rather distinct semantic groupings in all three languages: animal names, common foodstuffs, and nature or weather-related phenomena. This strange juxtaposition is perhaps not as surprising as Lakoff's “women, fire and dangerous things”, and it may have developed from a class of non-human animates, but this particular idiosyncratic semantic grouping can scarcely be the product of independent innovation."