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Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/lok¢iCa

Proto-Muskogean

Alternative forms
  • *ilok¢iCa

Noun

*lok¢iCₐa[1]

  1. turtle

Reconstruction notes
  • There exists no (other) reconstruction with root-initial *ilo, which leads Booker to suggest that this term could be reconstructed as *ilok¢iCa. This could explain Hitchiti and Mikasuki word-initial *y, through weakening of *ilo to *iyo.

Descendants
  • Chickasaw: loksiꞌ, luksi
    • Mobilian: loksi
  • Choctaw: luksi, loksi
  • Creek: locv
  • Hitchiti: yokči
  • Mikasuki: yokči

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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