noun animal_bird
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *sí•h-ka
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Hoocąk siikáksik ‘partridge’ KM:2838 , siikaksik
Proto-Dhegiha *síhka
Kanza/Kaw síkka RR
Osage sǘhka ‘chicken’ RR , çiúḳa ‘turkey’ LF:348a
Quapaw síkka ‘chicken’ RR
Presumably the MVS sih and zik stems for ‘bird’ are in some convoluted way doublets. sih- may in fact be from an earlier *sik-. The medial -c- in Proto-Crow-Hidatsa probably reflects a reduplicated form *cí•cika.
Osage rounding is unaccounted for. Initial syllable accent suggests a lost initial syllable. Although DH hk appears superficially to match tk of Lakota zįtká etc., such a cluster ought to yield ht in DH by regular metathesis, cf. ‘drink’, ‘fork’.
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