NODE / 0379attestedDakota
thí-
to dwell
- DATE
- Dakota historical and modern record
- SENSE
- dwell root
- FAMILY
- Siouan / Mississippi Valley Siouan · Dakotan
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:60:thi:attested:sense:dwell-root
The source identifies this as the base of thípi.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Proto-Dakota · Proto-Dakota · dwell root*thí
dwell; dwelling root
- SOUND
- Attested Dakota thí- continues reconstructed Proto-Dakota *thí with stable initial aspiration and stressed vowel.
- MEANING
- The dwelling meaning remains stable.
- SCHOLAR
- Rankin et al., Comparative Siouan Dictionary
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 2
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 2
- DEEPEST PATH
- 2
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Dakota thípi is formed on thí- “to dwell”; the final morphology is treated conservatively rather than assigned a folk literal gloss.
- MEANING
- The act or state of dwelling supplies a noun for a dwelling.
Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 352 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- The English spelling family tepee / teepee / tipi adapts Dakota thípi and regularizes its sounds in English.
- MEANING
- A Dakota dwelling term becomes an English name for a specific Great Plains dwelling form.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE