pronoun abstract
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *ta•pa
Crow sáapa ‘what’ GG:66
Hidatsa ta•pa- in: ta•pato•k ‘what could it be?’ [-ʔ question marker] J , ta•pa- in: ta•paʔ ‘what is it?’ J
Proto-Catawba
Catawba tα´pə ‘something’ KS:208 , tαpα ‘something’ KS:208
Cf. ‘indefinite/interrogative (3)’, ‘indefinite/interrogative (2)’.
The Catawba forms appear in a very muddled set of forms meaning “something”, some of which probably reflect *topa or *ropa ‘something’. Thus the existence of this form in Proto-Siouan-Catawba is uncertain.
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