Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/wa·kwehsa
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Proto-Algonquian edit
Etymology edit
The term resembles Yurok wɹgɹs (“fox”), but Goddard rejects the idea that the two terms go back to one Algic root, and describes the Yurok word as a regular derivative of the verb stem wrsry- (“be thin”)[1] (compare wrsryehl (“they (pieces of cloth) are thin”).
The term seems to be (*w- + ) *-a·kw- + *-ehsa.
Noun edit
*wa·kwehsa
Related terms edit
- *a·kw (“bushy-tailed animal (fox)”)
Descendants edit
- Plains Algonquian:
- Cheyenne: vóhkéso (“kit fox”)
- Central Algonquian:
- Eastern Algonquian:
See also edit
References edit
- Contributions to Anthropology: Linguistics (1967)
- William Cowan, Papers of the sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974, page 134
- ^ Ives Goddard, Sapir's Comparative Method, in New Perspectives in Language, Culture, and Personality, page 199