Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/tal-

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

*tar-

Etymology

Analysed by Proulx as a compound of *t- (“be”) and the associative deictic *ar, *al (*er, *el).

Adverb

*tal-

there, then

Descendants

Yurok: 'o (“there”)
Wiyot: tɨla- (“there, then, thus”), as in tɨla-takw (“she or he dwells there”)
Proto-Algonquian: *tal- (“there”), *taθ- (“there”)

References

Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic III: Pronouns, in Studies in Native American Languages II, volume 16 (1991)
J. Blevins, A. Garrett, The rise and fall of l sandhi in California Algic (2007)