Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/ki·lew-
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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
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]*ki·lew-
- you (plural); second-person plural pronoun
Related terms
[edit]- *ki·la (“you (singular)”)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Algonquian: *ki·lwa·wa (“you (plural)”) (see there for further descendants)
- Wiyot: ki'l wau'w (“you (plural)”) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), khil wow (“you (plural)”) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography), khíl waw (“you (plural)”) (in Proulx's 2004 orthography)
- Yurok: kelew (“you (plural)”)
References
[edit]- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)