Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-teʔsyi
Proto-Algonquian
editNoun
edit*-teʔsyi
- navel
- *neteʔsyi (“my navel”)
Descendants
edit- Abenaki: w-dezi (“its gizzard”)
- Cree: ni-tisi(y) / ᓂᑎᓯ(ᕀ) (nitisi(y), “my navel”)
- Miami: nin-tehsa (“my spleen”)
- Ojibwe: in-dis (“my navel”)
References
edit- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, citing Hockett (1985)