noun animal_insect
Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
Proto-Dhegiha *hą́tʔeka (?)
Omaha-Ponca hą́tʔega RR , hoⁿ´t’ega MAS
Kanza/Kaw hą́ččega RR
Osage hoⁿṭsega , †hą́hceka ‘common house fly’ LF:66b
Quapaw hą́tʔeka, hǫ́tʔeka ‘blow fly’ RR, JOD , hǫ́tteka ttą́ka JOD
Cf. Shawnee hoče ‘fly’ (Voegelin, 1937-40 p.445) and N.B. Shawnee #h-. This makes a Shawnee-like Algonquian dialect, with its prothetic h-, perhaps the most likely source language for this DH term. DH splits on glottalization, with Quapaw having doublets, signaling that this is probably not an inherited term even within DH.
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