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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ke-

This Proto-Algonquian 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-Algonquian

Alternative forms
  • *ket- (see usage notes at ne-)
  • *ki·- (in some compounds, see usage notes at ne-)

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *keʔ-, whence also Yurok k'e- (“your”) and Wiyot khu-, ku- (“your”), k- (“your”).

Prefix

*ke-

  1. your (singular)
    *ki·piči (“your tooth”)

Descendants
  • Plains Algonquian:
    • Blackfoot: ko-, ki-, k-
    • Arapaho: he-
    • Cheyenne: né- (“your”)
  • Central Algonquian:
    • Cree: ki-, ᑭ- (ki-)
    • Menominee: kɛ-
    • Ojibwe: gi-
    • Fox: k-, kî-
    • Miami: ki- (“your”)
  • Eastern Algonquian:
    • Abenaki: k-
    • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: k-
    • Massachusett: ke-, ku-, k-
    • Mohegan-Pequot: ku-
    • Mahican: k- (“your”)
    • Unami: k-, ki-

Compare Quiripi kee (“you”) (Unquachog).

See also

References
  • Goddard 1975
  • Anthropological Linguistics (the journal of Indiana University's Department of Anthropology), volume 39, issue 1 (1997)
  • Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
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