Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/pemyi
Proto-Algonquian edit
Alternative forms edit
- *pemi (older reconstruction)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Algic *peʔmeye (“grease”), whence also Yurok pemey (“grease, cooking fat, oil”) and Wiyot bo'm, pu'm (“grease”).
Noun edit
*pemyi
Descendants edit
- Plains Algonquian:
- Central Algonquian:
- Cree: ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”), ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”)
- English: pemmican (loanword from Cree)
- Moose Cree: ᐱᒥᔾ
- Swampy Cree: ᐱᒥᔾ
- Southern East Cree: ᐱᒦ (pimii)
- Northern East Cree: ᐱᒦ (pimii)
- Naskapi: ᐱᒥᔾ (pimiy)
- Ojibwe: bimide (“grease, oil, lard”)
- Ottawa: bmide
- Potawatomi: bmedé
- Menominee: pemēh
- Miami: pimi (“fat, grease”)
- Fox: pemi- (“grease, oil”)
- Cree: ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”), ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”)
- Eastern Algonquian:
References edit
- Goddard (1981)