Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/axʷama
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Proto-Muskogean
editEtymology
editFrom *a- (locative verb prefix) + *xʷama (“to protrude”).
Verb
edit*axʷama[1]
- to meet
Descendants
edit- Chickasaw: afama
- Choctaw: afama
- Creek: vfvnketv
- Hitchiti: afama
- Koasati: afankalaho̱
References
edit- ^ Booker, Karen. (2005). "Muskogean Historical Phonology." In Hardy, Heather Kay and Scancarelli, Janine (eds.), Native languages of the Southeastern United States, 246-298. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.