Johannes: Ioway - Otoe/Missouria language is the close relative to Hochunk. For your comparative purposes, along with the information sent you from John & Bob, the comparative in IOM for: (NOTE hyphen marks denote accent) eat = ru'je; eat s.t./ food = waru'je; table (lit. "eat on s.t.") = wa'ruje >(wa + a' + ruje). I trust that this will assist. Jimm