'Myth'

[Koontz John E]

Here's an interesting set: 'myth, traditional story'.  There's usually
another term for other kinds of stories, based on PS *o-ra'ke 'tell'.

Te ohuN'kakaN 'fairy story, myth, legend'
Sa hit[?]uN...kakaNpi 'traditional story; tell traditional story'

(Presumably hithuN'ka 'mouse' is not connected?)

OP hi=...gaN 'story; tell story'
Os "hi'go" 'story' Presumably hi'koN with denasalization.
Ks hi'yoge, hyoge (hi + last part of oya'ge 'tell', cf. *o-rake) 'myth'
Qu ???

IO we'...kaN, wagi'kaN 'traditional story; tell traditional story'
Wi waikaN' 'traditional story; tell traditional story'

The intersting thing here is the set isn't regular.  There are some
variaitons in shape, to be sure, but the interesting thing is that the
initial element hi (=> i in IO and WI, maybe after wa-?) is fairly
constant, and the final element -kaN, but IO and Wi -kaN here does not
match Da and Dh *kaN.  Wi -kaN and IO -kaN are from *-hkaN.  Only -gaN
would match exactly.

However, it is possible that the Wi and IO forms use a dative in *(ki)-k-
or something like that, and that the preaspiration reflects the dative
marking.  IO's form inflects werekaN 'you tell story' which is certainly
the dative paradigm.  The details of Winnebago inflection of this form are
not known to me.

John E. Koontz
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz