noun social_kin
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *i-ʔVka (?)
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *iʔVká
Crow i•ká ‘man’s older brother’ RG, GG:77, RGG:23
Hidatsa iʔaká ‘man’s older brother’ J
Pre-Mandan
Mandan ų́ʔka ‘elder brother’ H:262
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Tutelo-Saponi
Tutelo wahīik , †wahi•ik ‘elder brother’ H , ewahyek , †wahi•ik ‘elder brother’ HW
Paucity of cognates here makes full reconstruction difficult. This term may be related to the birth names given male children in MVS. We have tentatively reconstructed two distinct terms for ‘man’s elder bro.’, but it is entirely possible that neither was really a Proto-Siouan kinship term, since both are only marginally attested in more than one subgroup. Note that Biloxi seems to preserve one of the terms while Tutelo keeps the other. The Tutelo i•i may correspond to the iʔV found in the northern languages.
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