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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-yawi

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

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *-tewi, *-ʔewi, whence also Yurok tew (“flesh”).

Noun

*-yawi

  1. body or flesh

Usage notes

This term was always possessed:

  • *ni·yawi (“my body”)
  • *ki·yawi (“your body”)
  • *wi·yawi (“her or his body”)

Descendants
  • Central Agonquian:
    • Cree: miyaw/ᒥᔭᐤ (miyaw, “body”)
    • Menominee: ne·yaw (“my body”)
    • Ojibwe: niiyaw (“my body”), giiyaw (“your body”), wiiyaw (“her or his body”)
    • Shawnee: wiiya (“body”)
    • Miami: niiyawi (“myself; my body”)

References
  • Aubin (1975)
  • David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
  • Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
  • Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)
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