Reconstruction:Proto-Siouan-Catawban/kį•

Proto-Siouan-Catawban

Particle

*kį•

1. definite marker; the

Descendants

• Proto-Catawba: [Term?]
  • Catawba: kį
• Proto-Siouan: *-kį
  • Pre-Mandan: [Term?]
    • Mandan: -ki (subordination marker)
  • Proto-Mississippi-Valley: [Term?]
    • Proto-Dakota: [Term?]
      • Lakota: kį, ki (definite article; subordination marker)
  • Proto-Ohio-Valley: [Term?]
    • Proto-Biloxi-Ofo: [Term?]
      • Biloxi: ḳiⁿhiⁿ

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