Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/mi·na
Proto-Algonquian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Algic *mene (“berry”).
Noun edit
*mi·na
- berry; small fruit
Derived terms edit
- *wete·himini (“strawberry”)
- *ka·wimina (“thorny berry”)
Descendants edit
- Plains Algonquian:
- Blackfoot: min' (“berry”)
- Cheyenne: mene (“berry; fruit”)
- Central Algonquian:
- Eastern Algonquian:
References edit
- Goddard (1982)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
- Berman, Howard (1992) “A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 58, number 3, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →JSTOR: "*mi·na 'berry'"
- L. Campbell, The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment