Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/ki·la

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

Pronoun

*ki·la

1. you (singular); second-person singular pronoun

Related terms

• *ki·lew- (“you (plural)”)

Descendants

• Proto-Algonquian: *ki·ra (“you (singular)”) (see there for further descendants)
• Wiyot: ki'l (“you (singular)”) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), khil (“you (singular)”) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography), khíl (“you (singular)”) (in Proulx's 2004 orthography)
• Yurok: kel' (“you (singular)”)

References

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