verb evaluative
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *xí•(-ke)
Pre-Mandan *xík-
Mandan xíkoʔš ‘it’s bad’ RTC
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi xiyá ‘bad, cunning’ D&S:221a
verb evaluative
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *xí•(-ke)
Pre-Mandan *xík-
Mandan xíkoʔš ‘it’s bad’ RTC
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi xiyá ‘bad, cunning’ D&S:221a
Mandan has suffixed *-kE. We reconstruct length on the basis of its presence in the š-grade, cf. ‘bad (1)’.
| Language | Cognate | Phonetic Siouan | Meaning | Comment | Sources |
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