bend (5)

verb physical_contact_manipulation

Proto-Siouan-Catawba

Proto-Siouan

Proto-Mississipi-Valley *sʔį́

Proto-Dakota

Lakota -šʔį, ipú- ‘the outside of a bend or curve, as in a river’ EB:233b, EJ , ipášʔį ‘the outside of a bend or curve, as in a river’; also ‘depressed, of a person’ EJ , -šʔį, opú- ‘a curve, as of the outer side opposite the string of a bow.’ EB:403b, EJ , opášʔį ‘bend backwards, to be bent toward the inside (c oncave), like the back of a sway-back horse, or a pug nose’ EJ , -šʔį́, ka- ‘strain in the peak of copulation’ EB:292a, EJ , -šʔį́šʔį, ya- ‘tickle by saying something’ EB:629a, EJ , yašʔį́šʔį ‘tickle someone with the hand’ , yušʔį́šʔį

Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere -sʔį́

Chiwere waθʔį́ ‘bend’ JDH

Hoocąk -sʔį́, wa- ‘bend over, v.intr.’ [=wakú] KM:3464 , was’į

Proto-Dhegiha *pasʔį́

Kanza/Kaw bacʔį́ ‘stoop over, headlong head first’ MR, JOD, RR , bacʔį́cʔį ‘buck, as a horse’ RR , babácʔį ‘push over, upside down’ RR , bübácʔį ‘stoop over, make, push down’ RR , gabácʔį ‘stoop, force by striking’ RR , nąbácʔį ‘stoop, cause one to stoop by action of foot’ JOD , yübácʔį ‘bend or deflect something, force to stoop’ RR

Osage baṭs’íⁿsha , †pacʔį́ša ‘bend the top of stick or pole’ LF:24b

Quapaw díbasʔį́ ‘hold gun muzzle downward’ RR

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