Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/-tewi

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

• *-ʔewi

Noun

*-tewi

1. body or flesh

Usage notes

This term was always possessed:

• *wi·tewi, *wi·ʔewi (“her or his body”)

Descendants

• Yurok: tew (“flesh”)
• Proto-Algonquian: *-yawi (“body or flesh”)

References

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)