verb perceptual_tactile
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *hpá•hi
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *hpá•hi
Proto-Dakota *phé
Lakota phé ‘sharp’ RTC
Sioux Valley phé ‘sharp’ PAS
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere *phá•hi
Chiwere phá•hį ‘sharp’ RR
Hoocąk paahí ‘sharp’ KM:2426 , paahi
Proto-Dhegiha *hpá•hi
Omaha-Ponca ppáe ‘sharp’ RR
Kanza/Kaw ppá•hi ‘sharp’ RR
Osage p̣ahí , †hpahí ‘sharp’ LF:125a
Quapaw ppohį́ ‘sharp’ MR, RR , ppoí ‘sharp’ JOD
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Ofo óⁿphi , †-phi ‘sharp’ D&S:328a
The sporadic nasalization seems to be attested in widely separated languages. It is possible but speculative that the form has been contaminated by ‘porcupine’, q.v., but see also the hį of ‘knife’. It appears that in Dakotan the intervocallic h was irregularly lost (cf.
Omaha-Ponca), with subsequent vowel coalescence. Aspiration in the Ofo post-accentual syllable can only have come from syllable collapse pVh > ph. Possibly derived from this form are Biloxi †psųti , psûⁿtí, psoⁿti ‘sharp pointed’ (DS-248b) and Ofo †pəfhų́ti , pạfxû´nti ‘a point’ (DS-328b). This may be a compound of *hpá•hi ‘sharp’ and Biloxi sǫti ‘pointed’; cf DS-257a.
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