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Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *xʔihe
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa
Hidatsa xiʔé• ‘old’ AWJ
Pre-Mandan
Mandan xihóʔš ‘he’s old’ RTC
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo *xi < *xih
Biloxi xi, xidí , †xidi ‘chief’ D&S:221a
Ofo shíhuⁿ , †šíhų ‘holy (?)’ [cf. nóⁿpi shíhuⁿ ‘Sunday’] D&S:329a
Cf. ‘old’ *xʔo, also ‘wrinkle (1), ruffle’, ‘wrinkle (2)’. The Ofo may be a compound of ših < *xih and *ʔų ‘do, make’; h in this instance, then, could be interpreted as either the Ofo reflex of *ʔ (as it is in Biloxi) or of the h that appears in Mandan. This is a questionable set at best because of its lack of semantic cohesion and because of lack of proper matches among the post vocalic laryngeals.
Unfortunately, this latter problem is not uncommon in this lexicon.
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