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Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan [old reconstruction only]
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *za•nį́
Proto-Dakota *zanį́
Lakota ząní ‘well, not sick’ RTC
Dakota zaní ‘well’ WM:258b
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Chiwere ðañį LWR
Proto-Dhegiha *za•nį́
Omaha-Ponca zanį́ ‘all’ JOD
Kanza/Kaw za•nį́ ‘all’ RR
Osage çaní , †zaní ‘all’ LF:29b
Quapaw zanį́, izanį́ ‘all’ RR
We suspect an MVS innovation here. Cf. MVS -za ‘collective’. If this root is derived from the (earlier) collective suffix, it would better explain how *s could have become z here. It would have been posttonic. Lakota has evidently reinterpreted -ni as the negative suffix, leading to yazą́ ‘sick’. Quapaw i- is not accounted for so far. It does not fit semantically with either instrumental, locative or possessive i-, but its presence might account for the long a• by the second syllable lengthening rule.
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