Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/askyi

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

• *atkyi

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *atk-, *ačk- (“land, earth”), whence (according to Proulx) also Yurok hlkeyom (“clay”); compare Yurok hlkehl (“land, ground, clay, dirt”).

Noun

*askyi (locative *askinki)

1. land, soil, ground, earth

   *netaskyi (“my land”)

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Cheyenne: ho'e (“land, earth (not dirt)”)
  • Blackfoot: -ahko (“land, earth, ground, dirt”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: askîy/ᐊᐢᑮᕀ (“earth”) (asiskîy/ᐊᓯᐢᑮᕀ (“earth, soil, ground”))
    • Northern East Cree: ᐊᔅᒌ (ascii)
    • Southern East Cree: ᐊᔅᒌ (ascii)
    • Plains Cree: askiy
    • Naskapi: ᐊᔅᒋᔾ (aschiy)
    • Montagnais: assi
    • Atikamekw: aski
  • Menominee: ahke·w (“earth, land”)
  • Ojibwe: aki (“earth, land, ground”)
  • Miami: ahki (“field”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Abenaki: aki (“land”)
  • Massachusett: ohke (“land”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: ahki (“land, earth, dirt, ground”)
  • probably Mahican hkeek (“earth, land”)
  • Unami: hàki (“land”)
  • Nanticoke: ahki (“earth, land”)

References

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992): *atkyi
• Berman, Howard (1992) “A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 58, number 3, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →JSTOR: *axkyi
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, citing Sibert (1941): *axkyi
• David Costa, New Notes on Miami-Illinois (2008): *askyi