Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/meʔšipakwa

This Proto-Algonquian 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-Algonquian

Etymology

A compound of a particle meaning "(it is) big" and *-pakwa (“leaf”).

Noun

*meʔšipakwa

1. big leaf

Descendants

• Miami: mihšipakwa (“leaf (in some dialects); big leaf (in other dialects)”)

References

• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN