Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan/wašą́•ka

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

Alternative forms

• *wi-šą́•ka

Noun

*wašą́•ka

1. frog

Descendants

• Crow-Hidatsa: *šá•ka
  • Crow: sáaka
  • Hidatsa: sháaga
• Mandan: Mandan: psą́ka

References

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