Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/taliCi

Proto-Muskogean edit

Alternative forms edit

*talliCi

Noun edit

*taliCₐₐi^[1]

rock, stone

Reconstruction notes edit

Booker (2005) proposes the possibility of a geminated consonant, this would account for the short penultimate vowels in both Hitchiti and Mikasuki. Normally in these languages, after contraction of the *Cₐ or *Cₐₐ extensions, the penultimate vowel would be long. This geminated reconstruction could then be an older form of the non-geminated reconstruction.

Descendants edit

Alabama: tali
Chickasaw: tali'
Choctaw: tali
Hitchiti: tali
Koasati: tali
Mikasuki: tali

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.

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