Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wʔeɬkan

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

• *wʔeθkan
• *wʔeɬkane, *wʔeθkane

Etymology

The initial w- either is the third-person prefix *w-, or came to be re-analysed as it. Compare *wʔeθkwene.

Noun

*wʔeɬkan

1. bone

Descendants

• Yurok: 'werhlkerr' (“bone”)
• Wiyot: watkerat, wŭt-kŭ-dát (“bone”)
• Proto-Algonquian: *-θkani (“bone”)

References

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