Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wʔeɬkwene

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

• *wʔeθkwene
• *wʔeɬkwane, *wʔeθkwane

Etymology

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

Noun

*wʔeɬkwene

1. liver

Descendants

• Yurok: 'wrhlkun (“liver”)
• Wiyot: watwar (“liver”)
• Proto-Algonquian: *-θkweni (“liver”)

References

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