noun plant
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan *wa-wóha or: *wa-wúha
Proto-Crow-Hidatsa
Hidatsa wawúa ‘haw, thorn bush’ J , mawúa
Proto-Mississipi-Valley *Wo, *Wu
Proto-Hoocąk-Chiwere
Hoocąk wuwu ? ‘black haw’
Proto-Dhegiha *Wo
Kanza/Kaw bo ‘black haws’ RR
Osage p̣ṵ , †po ‘black haws’ JOD
Quapaw po, bo ‘black haws’ RR
Proto-Southeastern
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Ofo áho , †áho ‘haw, black or red’ D&S:319a
Cf. ‘cranberry’. This set contains irregularities no matter how it is viewed, but it is interesting nonetheless, since it is one of rather few *W sets. We believe that *W developed when *wa ‘absolutive’ underwent regular initial syllable syncope preceding a root with initial *w: *wa-woha > *w-woha > *Woha. ‘snow (1)’ provides a parallel example of this process. Hidatsa implies an older, pre-Hidatsa *wa-wuha. One would have to appeal to irregular vowel assimilations to account for the differing vowels in the daughter languages. Areal similarities may have played a role in the development of this root also, cf. Fox popokíminûn ‘black haw’ (perhaps borrowed from, or contaminated by, Siouan) Smith 1928, p. 256, also Miami papakimindjakwi ‘black haw tree’ (Voegelin p.79).
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