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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wʔeɬkan

This Proto-Algic 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-Algic

Alternative forms
  • *wʔeθkan
  • *wʔeɬkane, *wʔeθkane

Etymology

The initial w- either is the third-person prefix *w-, or came to be re-analysed as it. Compare *wʔeθkwene.

Noun

*wʔeɬkan

  1. bone

Descendants
  • Yurok: 'werhlkerr' (“bone”)
  • Wiyot: watkerat, wŭt-kŭ-dát (“bone”)
  • Proto-Algonquian: *-θkani (“bone”)

References
  • Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)
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