noun animal_bird
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo *ą•sąną
Biloxi aⁿsna, aⁿsŭná, aⁿsûná ‘generic: a duck, ducks’ D&S:178a , ą•snaʔ, ą•sənaʔ MRH , ą•sənaʔ MS
Ofo óⁿfạna , †ą́fəną ‘duck’ D&S:328a
Proto-Tutelo-Saponi
Tutelo manēasān , †mąne•asą•
Proto-Catawba
Catawba kasą́ ‘duck’ ASG
Biloxi/Ofo normally lose *#m-, so OVS languages all seem to form compounds with *wą ~ *awą́• ‘bird > game bird, turkey’ or ‘nest’. Tutelo shows the compounding most clearly. The other common element here seems to be *asą• ‘white (1)’, q.v., or alternatively a phonosymbolic element of the same shape representing a duck call. The match between DH and the southeastern languages may simply represent parallel derivation. The term may also have spread areally as there is a Yuchi look-alike, šaʔane (LB) as well as a Catawba form.
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