???*yaS and Woraxe as Potawatomi

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at d.umn.edu
Sat Aug 21 02:09:39 UTC 1999


> Further afield, I've recently realized that another similar form seems to
> appear in the term Hidatsa, in which -datsa (/raca/), if it is segmentable
> and of Siouan origin and goes back that far, would be from Proto-
> Crow-Hidatsa *-rasa.  The fricative grade is off again here:  s, not s^.

So a step further away from the "willows" analysis of HIDATSA?



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