numeral abstract_number
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
Proto-Dhegiha *hpé•-rǫpa
Omaha-Ponca ppéðǫba ‘seven’ RTC
Ponca ppé•ðąba ~ ppéąba (fast) ‘seven’ [So. Ponca] RR
Kanza/Kaw ppéyǫba ‘seven’ RR
Osage hpéǫpa ‘seven’ RR
Quapaw ppénǫba ‘seven’ RR
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi náⁿpahudí , †ną́pa-hudi ‘two + stem, bone’ D&S:238b
Cf. ‘eight’. In DH and Biloxi the counting system has shifted independently to a partial quinary pattern (similar to neighboring central Algonquian and Muskogean systems). DH *hpe•- is unidentified, and apparently unattested outside the counting words. Initial hC always indicates a lost initial syllable in DH, so the stem might conceivably be nąpé ‘hand (1)’ (i.e., the ‘second hand’ in counting, cf. the use of *šak- ‘hand’ in ‘seven (1)’), or it might be some other term; at this point it is impossible to recover the missing syllable. Biloxi náⁿpahudí ‘two’ + ‘stem, bone’ (DS-238b) shows a morpholexically dissimilar but semantically parallel quinary development.
The Proto-Dhegiha and Biloxi forms are not cognate.
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