<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Just to matters a bit more complicated, the Catawba word for 'gourd' is w'a:de:. If the Catawba word is related to the (Mississippi Valley) Siouan words - perhaps through a root *wa(:)t(w)-, it suggests that the earlier form was *watwuN rather than *wakwuN and that Ioway-Otoe and Winnibago are conservative while Dakotan and Dhegiha have velarized the initial member of the cluster (either in assimilation to the following *w or by contamination with the Algonquian word (?)). (There are plenty of cases of sporadic voicing of earlier /t/ to /d/ in Catawba.)<BR>
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