noun animal_bird
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo *ré•ska
Biloxi kŭdĕská, kûdĕ´sk, kŭdĕskí , †kdé•ska ‘bird, birds, flea’ D&S:216a , kdɛ•skaʔ ~ kədɛ•skaʔ , †kdé•ska ‘bird’ MRH, MS
Ofo téska, deská, téskha , †téska ‘bird’ D&S:330b , tculéskạ , †čuléskə ‘Carolina wren’ D&S:329b , tĕ´fka , †téfka ‘bird, flea’ D&S:329a
Ofo téska has a variant tĕ´fka (the expected form) under the entry soᵐ´pka ‘wing, fin’ DS-329a. ‘Carolina wren’ in Ofo shows l in place of t. Ordinarily this would be the reflex of an older Cr cluster, so the Biloxi initial k- may be reconstructible in this set. Both the Ofo and Biloxi terms also mean ‘flea’, q.v., in which regard, cf. the Dakotan habit of calling small birds (wrens warblers, etc.) čhąhéyala ‘tree fleas’. Koasati tiska-homma ‘bird-red, cardinal’ (Geoff Kimball) suggests that this is a diffused term in the Southeast.
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