additions to Woccon article

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Additions to Appendix 4 of "Resurrecting Coastal Catawban"

1. Proto-Siouan *wi'huN:te (?) 'black bear' (Rankin 1998) [Bob R. reports he
would reconstruct *wi'hu:te ~ *wi'huN:te, and that the word is perhaps a
borrowing]

2. Proto-Siouan *'wati 'boat, canoe' (Carter 1980:77) [John K. reports that
the reconstruction in the Comparative Siouan Dictionary is *Wa:'te (?) 'boat']

3. Proto-Siouan *wi'htoxka 'fox' (Rankin 1998)

4. Proto-Siouan *pha 'head' (Matthews 1958) [Bob R. reports that he would
reconstruct *a'hpa 'head']

5. Lakota mi, mila 'knife' (Carter 1980:77) [John K. reports that the
reconstruction in the Comparative Siouan Dictionary is *waN'hiN 'blade']

6. Proto-Siouan *i'hkuN: 'grandmother' (Rankin, Carter and Jones 1997)

7. Proto-Siouan *wi'htaN 'wildcat' (Rankin 1998)

8. Proto-Siouan *hu 'tree, trunk, stalk' (Carter 1980:77)

9. Proto-Siouan *wi'he(-ka) 'raccoon' (Rankin 1998)

10. Proto-Siouan *'ruti 'red' (Matthews 1958) [John K. reports that the
reconstruction in the Comparative Siouan Dictionary is *as^u'te 'red']

Sources

Carter, Richard T. 1980. The Woccon Language of North Carolina: Its Genetic
Affiliations and Historical Significance. IJAL 46(3):170-182.

Koontz, John E. Email communication, 20 January 2002.

Matthews, G. Hubert. 1958. Handbook of Siouan Languages. PhD dissertation.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

Oliviero, Giulia R.M. and Robert L. Rankin. Fortcoming. On the Subgrouping of
the Virginia Siouan Languages. In Blair A. Rudes and David Costa (eds.).
Essays in Algonquian and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert,
Jr. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

Rankin, Robert L. 1998. Siouan-Catawban-Yuchi Genetic Relationship: with a
Note on Caddoan. Siouan-Caddoan Linguistics Conference. Bloomington, Indiana.

Rankin, Robert L. Telephone communication, 31 January 2002.

Rankin, Robert L., Richard T. Carter and A. Wesley Jones. 1997. Proto-Siouan
Phonology and Grammar. Mid-America Linguistics Conference. Columbia:
University of Missouri.