Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-teʔsyi

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

Noun

*-teʔsyi

1. navel

   *neteʔsyi (“my navel”)

Descendants

• Abenaki: w-dezi (“its gizzard”)
• Cree: ni-tisi(y) / ᓂᑎᓯ(ᕀ) (nitisi(y), “my navel”)
• Miami: nin-tehsa (“my spleen”)
• Ojibwe: in-dis (“my navel”)

References

• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, citing Hockett (1985)