Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/ki·la·hka

This Proto-Algic 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-Algic

Alternative forms

• *kela·hkewe, *kegela·hkewe (per Proulx (1992))

Noun

*ki·la·hka

1. goose

Descendants

• Yurok: kelok (“goose”)
• Proto-Algonquian: the second element of *wa·pi-ki·la·hkwa (“snow goose”) (with analogical -w-, influenced by other birds' names)

References

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992) (uses the forms *kela·hkewe, *kegela·hkewe)
• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004) (uses this form)