verb evaluative
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *Sté
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *Sté
Proto-Dakota wašte
Lakota wašté ‘good’ RTC , waštélaka ‘love’ RTC
Proto-Dhegiha *xtá-re
Omaha-Ponca xjákithe , †xǰá- ‘love’ MAS:115
Kanza/Kaw xtáye ‘love’ RR
Osage xtáthe , †xtáðe ‘love’ LF:219b
Quapaw xtadé ‘love’ JOD
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Tutelo-Saponi
Tutelo yandostéka , †sté- ‘love’ H
Lakota ‘love’ < ‘good’ + -laka ‘consider, regard’. Tutelo ‘love’ < yąti ‘heart’ + ostéka ‘good’ (1Act yandowastéka). The putative DH cognates, although they fit semantically, show á where they ought to have é. These could be frozen ablauted vowels, but the expected forms with é are missing entirely from DH in this instance, so only the Dakota and Tutelo forms are reliably cognate here.
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