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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-ari

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
  • *-ali (alternative orthography)

Suffix

*-ari

  1. suffix used to pluralize inanimate nouns
    *-hpani (“lung”) → *-hpanari (“lungs”)

Descendants
  • Central Algonquian:
    • Ojibwe: -n, -an, -iin, -oon
    • Menominee: -an, -on
    • Fox: -ani
    • Shawnee: -ali
    • Miami: -a
  • Eastern Algonquian:
    • Mi'kmaq: -al
    • Abenaki: -al
    • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -ol
    • Unami: -a
    • Munsee: -al

See also

References
  • Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho
  • Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
  • Papers of the Algonquian Conference (2007), page 267: the peripheral suffixes PA*-i inan. sg. (> PEA *-0) and *-ari inan. pl. (> PEA *-ar)
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