Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/ki·lew-

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

Pronoun

*ki·lew-

you (plural); second-person plural pronoun

Related terms

*ki·la (“you (singular)”)

Descendants

Proto-Algonquian: *ki·lwa·wa (“you (plural)”) (see there for further descendants)
Wiyot: ki'l wau'w (“you (plural)”) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), khil wow (“you (plural)”) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography), khíl waw (“you (plural)”) (in Proulx's 2004 orthography)
Yurok: kelew (“you (plural)”)

References

Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)