noun physical_condition_change
Proto-Siouan-Catawba *wira
Proto-Siouan *wirá•
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *wiráʔ
Crow biláa ‘fire’ RG, GG:30, RGG:49
Hidatsa wiráʔ ‘fire’ J , miráʔ
Pre-Mandan *:wra
Mandan wára, wáraʔ ‘fire’ RTC
Proto-Catawba
Catawba wi•rą ‘burn’ KS
Final *ʔ might be reconstructible on the basis of Hidatsa and Mandan forms, but final ʔ is not otherwise a feature of Proto-Siouan, and present day Mandan speakers also know Hidatsa, so the precise status of ʔ is unclear. Mandan often places a nondistinctive ʔ at the end of citation forms ending with a short vowel, and Hollow recorded the form without ʔ. The Catawba form, because of its nasality, fits better with ‘burn (3), prairie fire’. It is possible however that at some point both sets were related formally along with the ‘heat/cold, instrumental’ instrumental prefix.
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