noun physical_substance
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *hpu•xáh-kE
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *pu•xaka
Crow puuxká ‘dirt, dust’ GG:54, RGG:92
Hidatsa pú•xaka ‘sand’ J
Pre-Mandan
Mandan púxak ‘fine sand’ H:161
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi pxaki´ , †pxaki ‘sand’ D&S:246a
Cf. ‘dry (1)’; ‘sand (1)’. We reconstruct an anomalous accent/length pattern.
‘sand (1)’ appears to be an -he final stem. ‘sand (2)’ may also be. The Hidatsa form appears to be an old nominalization (with suffixal -ka) from pu•xE ‘crush fine, grind’ (see ‘crush (1)’). At the very least, we should suspect contamination from this verb of an inherited noun.
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