Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/wį(y)ą

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

Numeral

*wį(y)ą

  1. one (1)

Usage notes

  • This is one of two words for "one"; the other is *nǫ-/*rǫ- (“one”).
  • Whether a daughter language uses wį or wą as its indefinite article "depend[s] on whether or not the language has metathesized the vowels of *wį(y)ą".[1]

Descendants

  • Lakota: *waŋží (“one”), *wáŋči (“one (in counting)”); waŋ (“a (indefinite article)”)

References

  1. ^ Robert Rankin, A Relic of Proto-Siouan rǫ-/nǫ- 'one' in Mississippi Valley Siouan
  • Rankin, Robert L., Carter, Richard T., Jones, A. Wesley, Koontz, John E., Rood, David S., Hartmann, Iren, editors (2015), “Entry #456”, in Comparative Siouan Dictionary‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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