Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-i·wa
Proto-Algonquian
editEtymology
editFrom the same Proto-Algic root as Wiyot wīwa-l (“his wife”).
Noun
edit*-i·wa
Usage notes
edit- This term was inalienable; it had to be preceded by a personal prefix, as in *ni·wa (“my wife”).
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
- J. Blevins, A. Garrett, The rise and fall of l sandhi in California Algic (2007), citing Aubin (1975) Hewson (1993)