copulate (1)

verb physical_contact

Proto-Siouan-Catawba

Proto-Siouan

Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *í•pi

Crow í•pi ‘cohabit, copulate’ RG, GG:79

Hidatsa í•pi ‘copulate’ J

Pre-Mandan

Mandan úpoʔš ‘he copulates with someone’ H:262

General comment

From the limited data it is not possible to determine what causes the initial vowels to differ here.

Language Cognate Phonetic Siouan Meaning Comment Sources