verb physical_condition_change
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *poh
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *pu•a < *po•he J
Crow púa ‘rotten’ GG:54
Hidatsa pú•a ‘rot, spoil, be swollen’ J
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *pó
Proto-Dakota *pó
Lakota pó RTC
Dakota po ‘swell’ SRR:423b
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Hoocąk nąąwó ‘swell’ JWE , nąąwo ‘rise, as bread’ , nąąwú , nąąwo
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi po ‘swell’ D&S:246b
Ofo pophû´ti , †pophúti ‘swell up’ D&S:328
See ‘swell (1)’, also the ‘shooting instrumental’ prefix.
Virtually every language in the world has a word meaning ‘swell, blow up, inflate’, etc. with the canonical form PUH where H is zero or nearly any fricative. Cf. English puff. Sound symbolism plays an important if not predominant role here. Compare howl for *o•he > <a class="Language" href="https://csd.clld.org/languages/hi" title="Hidatsa">Hidatsa</a> u•a.
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