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Proto-Siouan-Catawba
Proto-Siouan
Proto-Mississipi-Valley
Proto-Dhegiha *hpe•-rá•prį
Omaha ppeðábðį RTC
Ponca ppe•ðábðį RR
Kanza/Kaw ppeyáblį
Osage p̣ethabthiⁿ , †hpeðábrį LF:85
Quapaw ppedábnį
Proto-Southeastern *pa-ra•nį
Proto-Biloxi-Ofo
Ofo pạ́tạnĭ D&S:328b , pA´tAnî
Proto-Tutelo-Saponi
Tutelo pālán; palāni, palāli, palāniq N, H , pǎlan´ HW , pelą̈ʹk‘ ES , balai´n LJF , bilaæ:kh, bilæ̨:kh MMI
The Chiwere pattern is almost certainly borrowed from DH, as the basis for this numeral is ‘three’, which, in Chiwere, has undergone normal development to dá•ñį, not *ra•brį. This term is probably not Proto-Siouan in origin as it occurs in the proper phonological form (*hpV + ‘three’) only in OVS and DH.
Its presence in Illinois Algonquian (Rankin, 1985) shows that it spread from an OVS dialect. No actual Proto-Siouan term for ‘eight’ is currently reconstructible.
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