Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/mo·swa
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Proto-Algonquian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally "it strips", referring to the way the animal eats (by stripping bark off trees).
Noun[edit]
*mo·swa
Descendants[edit]
- Plains Algonquian:
- Central Algonquian:
- Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
- Menominee: mo·s
- Eastern Great Lakes:
- Eastern Algonquian:
- → English: moose (from one of the Eastern Algonquian languages)
References[edit]
- Siebert (1967)
- Howard Berman, A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns, in the International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 58, number 3 (July 1992), pages 321-323
- Hewson (1993)
- David Costa, The Miami-Illinois Language (→ISBN, 2003)
- Online Etymology Dictionary