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Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/taliCi

Proto-Muskogean

Alternative forms
  • *talliCi

Noun

*taliCₐₐi[1]

  1. rock, stone

Reconstruction notes
  • 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
  • Alabama: tali
  • Chickasaw: tali'
  • Choctaw: tali
  • Hitchiti: tali
  • Koasati: tali
  • Mikasuki: tali

References
  1. 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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