noun animal_insect
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere *he•zíke (?)
Chiwere hedhíge , †heðíge ‘bee’ JGT:105 , hejige , †hežíge ‘bee’ JGT:105
Otoe heðí•ge ‘wasp’ JDH
Hoocąk heezík KM:797 , heezik
Proto-Dhegiha
Osage wabáçige , †-zige ‘wasp’ LF:183a
Quapaw hezíka ‘bee’ RR
Cf. Shawnee heemo (pl. heemoki) ‘bee’ Voegl.-456; Miami amawia ‘bee’; Kickapoo aamoa ‘bee’ Voorhis-6. ‘bee’. Cf. also Swadesh 44(?) *mə or *muu, Atakapa min, muŋ; Chitimacha hihmu meaning ‘bee’.
Comparing Osage and the other languages it seems clear that *he•- and *-zikV are being treated as separate morphemes. Algonquian could be the source for he•-. In any event, this is a diffused term, found up and down the Mississippi, and is not directly reconstructible within Siouan exexcept perhaps for Chiwere/Hoocąk.
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