Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-wa
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Proto-Algonquian[edit]
Suffix[edit]
*-wa
- suffix which marks the third-person form of verbs
- *menwa (“she or he drinks”)
Descendants[edit]
- Central Algonquian:
- Shawnee: -wa
References[edit]
- Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, And Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. (edited by Blair Rudes and David Costa, 2003), page 4: "In Proto-Algonquian, and in most daughter languages that retain a reflex of it, *-wa is the general third person ending of the independent order. In Shawnee, -wa has been reanalyzed as a third person singular suffix, and is absent from third-person plural forms."