Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-wa
Appearance
Proto-Algonquian
[edit]Suffix
[edit]*-wa
- suffix which marks the third-person form of verbs
- *menwa (“she or he drinks”)
Descendants
[edit]- Central Algonquian:
- Shawnee: -wa
References
[edit]- Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, And Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. (edited by Blair Rudes and David Costa, 2003), page 4: "In Proto-Algonquian, and in most daughter languages that retain a reflex of it, *-wa is the general third person ending of the independent order. In Shawnee, -wa has been reanalyzed as a third person singular suffix, and is absent from third-person plural forms."