"WOUND"

[Rankin, Robert L]

Another interesting observation, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.  The verbs of motion form a systematic and symmetrical group of verbs and Catawba may have indeed had /hi/ at some point.  It's just very hard to know these things with the state of Catawba what it was when Siebert and others did their field work.  There are many other question marks.  [h] is the regular reflex of initial glottal stop in Biloxi and apparently Tutelo, and there are h/? correspondences in Algonquian also, so some sort of areal passage of ?>h is a possibility, esp. in the SE.  But the presence of /hu:/ in Catawba is a definite problem no matter what.  Is the /h/ present throughout the conjugation (lack of consistency is a feature of the Siouan conjugation)?
 
Bob

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Since Catawba does not possess a cognate to Siouan /hi/ 'arrive', but does possess the verb /hu:/ 'come', it is unlikely that the initial /h/ in the Catawba verb is analogical, which in turn suggests that the initial /h/ in the cognate Siouan verb is not analogical. Perhaps the reverse is true, i.e. that the /h/-less forms in Siouan are somehow analogical in Siouan, although I have not idea what the source for the analogy might be.

Blair