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Proto-Siouan
Noun
*hká•xi
- crow
Descendants
- Possibly Mandan:
- Mississipi-Valley: *hká•ɣi
- → Dhegiha: *hká•ɣe
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