Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ke-
Proto-Algonquian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Algic *keʔ-, whence also Yurok k'e- (“your”) and Wiyot khu-, ku- (“your”), k- (“your”).
Prefix
edit*ke-
- your (singular)
- *ki·piči (“your tooth”)
Descendants
edit- Plains Algonquian:
- Blackfoot: ko-, ki-, k-
- Arapaho: he-
- Cheyenne: né- (“your”)
- Central Algonquian:
- Eastern Algonquian:
Compare Quiripi kee (“you”) (Unquachog).
See also
editReferences
edit- Goddard 1975
- Anthropological Linguistics (the journal of Indiana University's Department of Anthropology), volume 39, issue 1 (1997)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN