Pa Snuta (Eggheads?)

[Koontz John E]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Rankin, Robert L wrote:
> I think 'drink' is the easiest -tk- word to find good cognates for.

Yes - I couldn't think of the clasical example.

> If there is a root *sroh-ka, it should turn up in Dakotan as /slo'kha/
> with the usual metathesis.  Perhaps something like /sro'khe/ in Otoe and
> Ioway.  I haven't checked for any of these.

Well, I'm not too worried if it appears only in one or two languages, in
this case, since I'm not so much creating an entry in the CSD as
explaining a small list of forms, but to continue the analogy, I'd expect
*soroke' in Winnebago.  I guess Mandan would be something like *s^oro ~
*s^orohe.

It's a pity that only -ka binds tightly enough to a stem to form a
preaspirate with a stem final h.