Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/na·pe·gʷa

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

Noun

*na·pe·gʷa

1. male

Descendants

• Proto-Algonquian: *na·pe·wa (“male, man”) (see there for further descendants)
• Yurok: pegeehl (“male animal”), pegerk (“man”) (with regular loss of *ne- and addition of nominalizing suffixes)

References

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)