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Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *ayú•xi ~ *arú•xi (?)
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *rú•ɣi
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere rú•ɣi
Chiwere luxí GM , rúxi JGT:281
Otoe lu•xwé• RR
Hoocąk ruuɣí ‘willow’ KM:2746 , ruuǧi
Proto-Dhegiha *rú•ɣe
Omaha-Ponca thíxe , †ðíɣe ‘Salix sp.’
Kanza/Kaw yǘ•ɣe, yǘ•ɣe ziga ‘willow, hard willow’ RR
Osage thiúxe , †ðǘɣe ‘willow tree’ LF:150b
Quapaw díɣe ‘willow’
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi ayuxú, áyuxudí , †ayux- ‘sweet gum tree’ D&S:296a
There may be two sets here, ‘pith’, with *o (Lakota čhoɣį́ ‘pith’ C Lakota čhoxwą́žiča ‘willow’ Otoe lo•xwé•), and ‘willow’, with *u. Dakota suggests this. Biloxi, with a different meaning, has a reflex of Proto-Siouan *y while most MVS languages have reflexes of *r. Biloxi compounds with -hu ‘tree’.
This term may have diffused like many tree terms. There are Iroquoian and Tunica look-alikes. Cf. ‘sycamore ? (birch, maple)’
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