Indian perfume set.

[rankin at ku.edu]

I'm not crazy about the semantics if this is indeed fricative symbolism.
There's been quite a bit of innovation in these sets though.  The Kansa
term for 'onion', mazhaNghe, is cognate with Dakotan for 'sweetgrass'.

> On the subject of plants, rice is I think psiN and onion ps^iN in
Lakota (haven't got a dictionary to hand).  This looks like the familiar
Lakota sound symbolism.  Does it work that way in other Siouan
languages?