Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/sará·

This Proto-Siouan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Siouan

Noun

*sará·

  1. grease

Descendants

  • Crow-Hidatsa: *cará·
    • Crow: taláa
    • Hidatsa: caráa
  • Mississipi-Valley: *srá
  • Hoocąk-Chiwere: *srá
  • → Dhegiha: *sRá-re

References

  • Rankin, Robert L., Carter, Richard T., Jones, A. Wesley, Koontz, John E., Rood, David S., Hartmann, Iren, editors (2015), “Entry #753”, in Comparative Siouan Dictionary[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology