Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/-sene
Proto-Algic
editNoun
edit*-sene
Usage notes
editThis term was always possessed, e.g. as *mesene.
Descendants
edit- Wiyot: va·sar, weser, wesen (“(woman's) breast; milk”) (with the definite third-person prefix), básad (“breasts”) (with the indefinite third-person prefix)
- Proto-Algonquian: *-θeni, *-seni (“breast”)
References
edit- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)