Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/-sene

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

Noun

*-sene

1. breast

Usage notes

This term was always possessed, e.g. as *mesene.

Descendants

• Wiyot: va·sar, weser, wesen (“(woman's) breast; milk”) (with the definite third-person prefix), básad (“breasts”) (with the indefinite third-person prefix)
• Proto-Algonquian: *-θeni, *-seni (“breast”)

References

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