noun animal_bird
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *awą́•-šo(-kE)
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa
Hidatsa awašóʔriša ‘swallow (bird)’
Pre-Mandan *wą•sok (?)
Mandan wą́sok ‘swallow’ H:276
noun animal_bird
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *awą́•-šo(-kE)
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa
Hidatsa awašóʔriša ‘swallow (bird)’
Pre-Mandan *wą•sok (?)
Mandan wą́sok ‘swallow’ H:276
Cf. Hidatsa aʔriša ‘crow (bird)’. The reconstructed term is a compound of ‘bird’ (q.v.) and an adjective. Kanza/Kaw has a vaguely similar descriptive term for this bird: ǘbe žąkka ‘forked tail’. Biloxi tcoká ‘(to have) a piece broken out at the top’ suggests that the reference in Hidatsa/Mandan may also be to the swallow’s distinctively forked tail. (Biloxi č < Proto-Siouan *š regularly).
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