noun natural_force_weather
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *húhi
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *huhe
Crow awatáahua ‘blizzard’ GG:70
Hidatsa húhe• ‘blizzard’ J
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Hoocąk -huhí, táa- ‘blizzard’ KM:3051 , taahuhi ‘blizzard’ KM:3051 , -húhi, waa- , waa huuhi
The Hoocąk forms are nominalizations of an old verb root, one with táa- ‘heat/cold, instrumental’, and one with wa•- ‘absolutive’. Hoocąk -hi and Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *he cannot be directly compared: one or the other language must have reshaped the inherited form. Lengthening of -he in Hidatsa is unexplained.
Crow hua is the regular development.
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