Dorsey's Law again

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 rankin at ku.edu wrote:
> > Miner's Hocank Lexicon contains the word [k'orok'oros] 'be hollow'.

The Winnebago and Ioway-Otoe materials suggest a phonaestheme k?o
'hollow'.  The relevant forms (except perhaps k?o(o) 'thunder') all have
definitions in regard to shape.  Forms include IO k?owe 'hollow'.
Winnebago doesn't seem to have a corresponding *k?oop, but it does have
several k?o hollow words, which I don't recall off the top of my head.  I
wonder if this form might not be characterized as the interesting
collision of a CRVC 'make sound' phonaesthemic root with the k?o
phonaestheme?

In regard to haik?iNniN 'look after', I suspect that the stem here is
gik?iN 'carry one's own on one's back'.  The definitions in various
sources suggest hovering animal mothers over their young or humans caring
for sick and pregnant people.  I'm not sure what niN is in the context.
Some sort of auxiliary.  In this case the two syllables k?iN and niN are
not from original *kriN at all.  The 'on, over' sense derives entirely
from the locative (h)a-.