NODE / 0381reconstructedProto-Mississippi Valley Siouan
*htí
dwell; dwelling root
- DATE
- Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan
- SENSE
- dwell root
- FAMILY
- Siouan / Mississippi Valley Siouan
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:62:hti:reconstructed:sense:dwell-root
Reconstructed by comparison, not directly attested.
*This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished
Proto-Siouan · Proto-Siouan prehistory · dwell root*ahtí•
dwell, dwelling, house
- SOUND
- Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan *htí continues Proto-Siouan *ahtí• with loss or reanalysis of the initial vowel and inherited consonantal material.
- MEANING
- The reconstructed field remains dwell, dwelling, house.
- SCHOLAR
- Rankin et al., Comparative Siouan Dictionary
- CONFIDENCE
- established
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinheritanceestablished
Proto-Dakota · Proto-Dakota · dwell root*thí
dwell; dwelling root
- SOUND
- Proto-Dakota *thí continues Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan *htí with subgroup-specific ordering and aspiration development.
- MEANING
- The dwelling and house field remains stable.
- SCHOLAR
- Rankin et al., Comparative Siouan Dictionary
- CONFIDENCE
- established
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
- 4
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 4
- DEEPEST PATH
- 4
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Proto-Dakota *thí continues Proto-Mississippi Valley Siouan *htí with subgroup-specific ordering and aspiration development.
- MEANING
- The dwelling and house field remains stable.
Rankin et al., Comparative Siouan Dictionary1 CITATIONEDGE 354 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- Attested Dakota thí- continues reconstructed Proto-Dakota *thí with stable initial aspiration and stressed vowel.
- MEANING
- The dwelling meaning remains stable.
Rankin et al., Comparative Siouan Dictionary1 CITATIONEDGE 353 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03derivationestablished
- 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 041 EDGE
STEP 04borrowingestablished
- 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.That is expected for a reconstructed form: the node is inferred from comparison, not quoted from a surviving occurrence.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE