Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-teʔsyi
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This Proto-Algonquian 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-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)