noun natural_force_weather
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *-Wá•su
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *Wá•su
Proto-Dakota *wasú
Lakota wasú ‘hail’ RTC
Dakota wasú ‘hail’ SRR:535b
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Chiwere ba•θú ‘hail’ RR
Proto-Dhegiha *Wásü
Omaha-Ponca ma´çi , †mási MAS:91
Kanza/Kaw bósü RR
Osage báçi , †pásü ‘hailstones’ LF:19a
Quapaw pási RR
Proto-Catawba
Catawba wasa- ‘hail’ ASG, KS
If the term is a compound made up of ‘snow (1)’ and ‘kernel, seed’, then the initial *W is explained. It stems from the earlier sequence, secondary *ww, that we find in ‘snow (1)’. The long syllable here is the originally accented one and the Chiwere and Lakota forms have moved accent to conform with their predominant pattern, i.e., we have reconstructed the exceptional rather than the productive pattern from among the cognates on the assumption that the term does incorporate ‘snow (1)’.
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