Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/meskwi

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This Proto-Algonquian 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-Algonquian

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Noun

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*meskwi

  1. blood
  2. red

Descendants

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  • Plains Algonquian:
    • Blackfoot: mawk'sinum (red)
    • Arapaho: bé' (red)
    • Nawathinehena: maoxtaheini (red)
    • Gros Ventre: baxa'aⁿ (red)
    • Cheyenne: ma'- (red), ma'e (blood)
  • Central Algonquian:
  • Eastern Algonquian:
    • Mi'kmaq: megwe'g (red)
    • Abenaki: m(s)kwi (red)
    • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mqeyu (she, he or it is red) (n-mihkw-ey (I am red), mkw-eyo (he is red))
    • Massachusett: musquéheonk (blood), musquè (it is red)
    • Mohegan-Pequot: musqi (blood), musqisu- (he is red)
    • Penobscot: mehkʷi- (red)
    • Quiripi: sqúayo (red) (Unquachog)
    • Unami: hmukw (blood), màxksu (she or he is red)

References

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  • James A. Geary, Proto-Algonquian *çk: Further Examples, in Language, volume 17, number 4 (October - December 1941), pages 304-310: *meçkw-
  • Algonquian Linguistics, volume 4 (1978), page 17: *meskwi
  • Papers of the ninth Algonquian Conference (edited by William Cowan; 1978), page 133: *meskwi 'red'
  • Goddard (1982)
  • Berman, Howard (1992) “A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 58, number 3, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →JSTOR: *meçkwi
  • Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho →ISBN, 1994), page 99: *meskwi 'red'; *meskwaaki 'when it is red'
  • Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN: *meçkw-