Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/menahanwi

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

Etymology edit

Compare Proto-Algonquian *menehsi (“island”).

Noun edit

*menahanwi

island

Descendants edit

Plains Algonquian
- Probably Cheyenne manȧhého'e (“island, country”)
Central Algonquian
- Ottawa: mnishenh
Eastern Algonquian
- Abenaki: mnahan, menahan, manahan
- Penobscot: mə̀nəhan
- Loup A: men'han, mənhan
- Massachusett: munnóh, munnohhan
- Miami: minahánwi
- Unami: mënatay
- Munsee: mŭnáhan (mə̆náhan)
- Mohegan-Pequot: munahan

Notes edit

Related to Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi terms ᒥᓂᔅᑎᒄ (ministikw, “island”), minishtikᵘ (“island”), minictikw.

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 Goddard (1982)