<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>Crow has awa'xa for 'sky' and ahpaaxi' for 'cloud'. Perhaps Hidatsa has lost
<BR>the awa'xa term and uses ahpaaxi' for both 'clouds' and 'sky'. Actually
<BR>awa'xa looks like a better candidate for a cognate with the other Siouan
<BR>terms.
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