Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/erenyiwa

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

• *elenyiwa (alternative orthography)

Noun

*erenyiwa

1. man, person

Synonyms

• *na·pe·wa (“man, male”)

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Blackfoot: nínaa(wa) (“man”)
  • Arapahoan:
    • Arapaho: hinén (“man”)
    • Nawathinehena: hiten (“man”)
    • Gros Ventre: hineni (“man”)
  • Cheyenne: hetane (“man”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
    • Cree:
      • Plains Cree: iyiniw
      • Woods Cree: iθiniw
      • Swampy Cree: ininiw
      • Moose Cree: ililiw
      • Atikamekw iriniw
    • Montagnais-Naskapi:
      • East Cree:
        • Northern East Cree: īyiyiw (iiyiyiu), ᐄᔨᔨᐤ (iiyiyiw, “human; Cree”)
        • Southern East Cree: īyiyū (iiyiyuu), ᐄᔨᔫ (iiyiyoo, “human; Cree”)
      • Montagnais: īlnu (Western), innu (Eastern)
      • Naskapi: iiyuw, iyyū, ᐃᔪᐤ (iyuw)
  • Menominee: enɛ·niw (“man”)
  • Eastern Great Lakes:
    • Ojibwe-Potawatomi:
      • Ojibwe: inini, nini (“man”)
      • Algonquin: inini (“man, male”)
      • Potawatomi: nine (“man”)
    • Fox: neniwa, ineniwa (“man”)
    • Shawnee: hileni
    • Miami: ileniwa (oldest form) → alenia (old form) → lenia (modern form)
• Eastern Algonquian: *ərənəw (“man”)
  • Abenaki: alnôba (“human”)
  • Massachusett: ninnu (“man”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: in (“man”)
  • Quiripi: run (“man”) (Unquachog)
  • Delaware:
    • Munsee: lúnuw (“man”)
    • Unami: lënu (“man”)
  • Loup A: ilinȣ

References

• Bloomfield (1946)
• David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
• Correspondences of Cree and Ojibwe Sounds and Proto-Algonquian, as described by Leonard Bloomfield in 'Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology # 6' (New York - 1946), with modifications proposed by Ives Goddard in 'The west-to-east cline in Algonquian dialectology' (Actes du 25e Congrès des Algonquinistes, 1994)