Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-ari

This Proto-Algonquian 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-Algonquian

Alternative forms

• *-ali (alternative orthography)

Suffix

*-ari

1. suffix used to pluralize inanimate nouns

   *-hpani (“lung”) → *-hpanari (“lungs”)

Descendants

• Central Algonquian:
  • Ojibwe: -n, -an, -iin, -oon
  • Menominee: -an, -on
  • Fox: -ani
  • Shawnee: -ali
  • Miami: -a
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Mi'kmaq: -al
  • Abenaki: -al
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -ol
  • Unami: -a
  • Munsee: -al

See also

• *-aki

References

• Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
• Papers of the Algonquian Conference (2007), page 267: the peripheral suffixes PA*-i inan. sg. (> PEA *-0) and *-ari inan. pl. (> PEA *-ar)