Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/oynkʷa

This Proto-Muskogean 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-Muskogean

Etymology

Booker (2005) suggests the possibility of a compound term, with the first element deriving from *okaCi (“water”) and an unknown second element.

Verb

*oynkʷa^[1]

to rain

Descendants

Alabama: oyba
Chickasaw: omba
Choctaw: omba
Koasati: oibalaho̱
⇒ Mikasuki: okoːbom (“it rains”)

References

^ Booker, Karen (2005) “Muskogean Historical Phonology”, in Hardy, Heather kay and Scancarelli, Janine, editors, Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 246–298

[1] Booker, Karen (2005) “Muskogean Historical Phonology”, in Hardy, Heather kay and Scancarelli, Janine, editors, Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 246–298

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