verb physical_contact_manipulation

Proto-Siouan-Catawba

Proto-Siouan

Proto-Mississipi-Valley *-kótE

Proto-Dakota

Lakota kóta, pa- ‘dig or take out marrow from a bone, to probe’ EB:429a , kota, wapá- ‘probe or dig out’ EB:546a

Proto-Dhegiha *-kóte

Kanza/Kaw -goǰe, bá- ‘probe, pick, as the teeth’ MR, RR , -góǰe, ba- ‘pick, probe, pick the teeth’ RR , -goǰe, ogá- ‘inside, far from the front, inside corner’ RR

Quapaw -kótte, di- ‘dig out, probe’ RR