Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/ki·la

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This Proto-Algic 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-Algic

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Pronoun

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*ki·la

  1. you (singular); second-person singular pronoun
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Descendants

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  • Proto-Algonquian: *ki·ra (you (singular)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Wiyot: ki'l (you (singular)) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), khil (you (singular)) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography), khíl (you (singular)) (in Proulx's 2004 orthography)
  • Yurok: kel' (you (singular))

References

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  • Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)