Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-yawi
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Proto-Algonquian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Algic *-tewi, *-ʔewi, whence also Yurok tew (“flesh”).
Noun[edit]
*-yawi
- body or flesh
Usage notes[edit]
This term was always possessed:
- *ni·yawi (“my body”)
- *ki·yawi (“your body”)
- *wi·yawi (“her or his body”)
Descendants[edit]
- Central Agonquian:
References[edit]
- Aubin (1975)
- David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)