Cases of -kka from *...h+ka (Re: butterfly)

[Koontz John E]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Rory M Larson wrote:
> But if we assume that /nikka/ is itself a compound,
> perhaps of the form I think John was suggesting,
>
>    V      + [*ka]    => N
>   [*niNh] + [*ka]    => [*niNhka] > [nikka]
>   'live'  + [*ka]    => 'living one', 'person', 'man'

I should probably clarify that this source of -kka from *...h-ka was
presumably a factor in Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan, but is not being
suggested as a recently productive process.  Thus I was offering it as a
possible etymology for nikka that led to an originally more general sense
of nikka - 'being, living thing'.  I doubt that would help with the
morphosyntax of compounds in which nikka was a element.  Also, I'm not
sure if ni-living would be a concept that applied to plants, something
that I overlooked before.