Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-teʔsyi
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Proto-Algonquian
[edit]Noun
[edit]*-teʔsyi
- navel
- *neteʔsyi (“my navel”)
Descendants
[edit]- Abenaki: w-dezi (“its gizzard”)
- Cree: ni-tisi(y) / ᓂᑎᓯ(ᕀ) (nitisi(y), “my navel”)
- Miami: nin-tehsa (“my spleen”)
- Ojibwe: in-dis (“my navel”)
References
[edit]- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, citing Hockett (1985)