Reconstruction talk:Proto-Algonquian/maθkwa

From another root:

• Abenaki: awasos (“black bear”)
• Mohegan-Pequot: awáhsohs (“bear”)
• Penobscot: awesus (/ɑˈweːsːus/)

- -sche (discuss) 03:27, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Another root:

• Mi'kmaq has mui'n
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy has muwin (“black bear (Ursus americanus)”)

Various other words for bears:

• Cheyenne has náhkohe (“bear”) (Holliman's orthography: na go; 'Simplified Spelling': nahgo), possibly derived from this root.
• Blackfoot has kiááyo(wa) (“bear”), sikohkiááyowa (“black bear”).
• Cree has osâwask (“brown bear”), okistatowân (“grizzly bear; large old bear”), mistahaya (“grizzly bear; large old bear”, literally “big one”). - -sche (discuss) 04:34, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

• Yurok has nikwech (“grizzly bear (Ursus arctos)”) (possibly related to this root). Yurok also has chyr'r'y (“black bear (Ursus americanus)”) (variants chir'r'y / chr'r'y). - -sche (discuss) 04:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

• For "bear", Powhatan is said to have had amonsoquath and momonsacqweo (monnonsacqueo), i.e. -VmonsVkwV-, possibly from this root. - -sche (discuss) 04:59, 8 July 2014 (UTC)