Number 'nine' in Chiwere.

[David Costa]

I know it's not all that important, but in the oldest Miami-Illinois records, "eight" is para·re. By the late 1700s, it's pala·ni in all dialects.

Dave

> I need to add a little to my earlier comments on 'seven' and 'eight'.  Chiwere only shows the partial quinary traces in 'eight', not 'seven'.  And they seem to have borrowed it from Omaha.  Below is the comparative dictionary entry for 'eight', and it shows the Omaha influence.
> 
> GLOSS[ eight
>  
> CH[ gre•rá•brį RR
>  
> Proto-Dhegiha[ *hpe•-rá•wrį
> OM[ ppeðábðį C
> PN[ ppe•ðábðį RR
> KS[ ppe•yá•blį
> OS[ hpe•ðá•brį 
> QU[ ppedá•bnį
>  
> ProtoSE[ *pa-ra•nį
>  
> OF[ pạ́tạnĭ DS-328b
> OF[ pA´tAnî Swanton 1909-485
>  
> TU[ pālán (N); palāni, palāli, palāniq H
> TU[ pǎlan´ Hw
> TU[ pelą̈ʹk‘ Sapir
> TU[ balai´n Fracht
> TU[ bilaæ:kh, bilæ̨:kh Mithun
>  
> OTHLGS[ Miami: palani (with variant forms recorded.)
>  
> COM[ The CH pattern is almost certainly borrowed from DH, as the basis for
> this numeral is ‘three’, which, in CH, has undergone normal development to
> {dá•ñį}, not {*ra•brį}. This term is probably not PSI in origin as it
> occurs in the proper phonological form (*hpV + ‘three’) only in OVS and DH.
> Its presence in Illinois Algonquian (Rankin, 1985) shows that it spread from
> an OVS dialect. No actual PSI term for ‘eight’ is currently reconstructible.
>  
> Treatment of 'seven' follows in a separate message.
> 
> Bob
> 
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