Number 'nine' in Chiwere.

[Rankin, Robert L.]

I need to add a little to my earlier comments on 'seven' and 'eight'.  Chiwere only shows the partial quinary traces in 'eight', not 'seven'.  And they seem to have borrowed it from Omaha.  Below is the comparative dictionary entry for 'eight', and it shows the Omaha influence.


GLOSS[ eight



CH[ gre•rá•brį RR



Proto-Dhegiha[ *hpe•-rá•wrį

OM[ ppeðábðį C

PN[ ppe•ðábðį RR

KS[ ppe•yá•blį

OS[ hpe•ðá•brį

QU[ ppedá•bnį



ProtoSE[ *pa-ra•nį



OF[ pạ́tạnĭ DS-328b

OF[ pA´tAnî Swanton 1909-485



TU[ pālán (N); palāni, palāli, palāniq H

TU[ pǎlan´ Hw

TU[ pelą̈ʹk‘ Sapir

TU[ balai´n Fracht

TU[ bilaæ:kh, bilæ̨:kh Mithun



OTHLGS[ Miami: palani (with variant forms recorded.)



COM[ The CH pattern is almost certainly borrowed from DH, as the basis for

this numeral is ‘three’, which, in CH, has undergone normal development to

{dá•ñį}, not {*ra•brį}. This term is probably not PSI in origin as it

occurs in the proper phonological form (*hpV + ‘three’) only in OVS and DH.

Its presence in Illinois Algonquian (Rankin, 1985) shows that it spread from

an OVS dialect. No actual PSI term for ‘eight’ is currently reconstructible.



Treatment of 'seven' follows in a separate message.


Bob

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