noun
animal_insect
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
*(w-)hé• < **(wa-)hé•
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa
*weé < *wehé
Crow
beé
RG,
GG:28,
RGG:1
Hidatsa
wé•
‘head louse’
J
,
mé•
Pre-Mandan
Mandan
péʔ
‘head louse’
RTC
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
*hé
Proto-Dakota
*héya
Lakota
héya
‘louse’
RTC
Dakota
héya
‘louse’
SRR:144b
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
*hé•
Chiwere
he•
‘louse’
RR
Hoocąk
hée
‘louse’
KM:782
,
hee
Proto-Dhegiha
*hé
RR
Omaha-Ponca
hé
‘louse’
RR
Kanza/Kaw
hé
‘louse’
RR
Osage
hé
‘louse’
RR
Quapaw
he
‘louse’
JOD
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Biloxi
ané, anedí
, †ané
‘louse, lice’
D&S:173a
Ofo
óⁿyi
, †ą́yi
‘louse’
D&S:328
General comment
Once again OVS shows n for h elsewhere; cf. ‘day’, ‘long (2)’.
Cf. also ‘bee (1)’. Biloxi frequently loses root-initial h-. If that happened
here, the n could be the reflex of *r, an epenthetic glide
inserted between the vowels. The problem in this instance is that Biloxi n
preceding an oral vowel usually results from a former cluster in which r
was the second member.
Root-initial *h- is quite generally lost in Ofo and replaced with y
intervocalically (cf. ‘blackberry’, ‘boat’, ‘female, woman’). Final unaccented -e
raises to -i in OVS languages, leaving the Ofo form as we have it here.
The initial ą́ of Ofo is unexplained however.