Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ki·ra

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

*ki·la (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *ki·la (“you (singular)”).

Pronoun

*ki·ra

you (singular); second-person singular pronoun

Related terms

*ki·rwa·wa (“you (plural)”)

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- Blackfoot: kiistó
Central Algonquian:
- Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
  - Cree:
    - Plains Cree: kîya/ᑮᔭ (“you (singular)”)
    - Woods Cree: kīθa
    - Swampy Cree: kīna
    - Moose Cree: kīla
    - Atikamekw kīr
  - Montagnais-Naskapi:
    - East Cree:
      - Northern East Cree: čiy
      - Southern East Cree: čiy
    - Montagnais: čīl (Western), čīn (Eastern)
    - Naskapi: chiiy, čiy
- Eastern Great Lakes:
  - Ojibwe-Potawatomi:
    - Ojibwe: giin (“you (singular)”)
    - Algonquin: ki, kit
    - Potawatomi: gin (“you”)
  - Fox (Sauk): kîna (“you (singular)”)
  - Miami: kiila (“you (singular)”)
Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: gi'l (“you (singular)”)
- Abenaki: kia (“you (singular)”)
- Penobscot: ki·'a (“you (singular)”)
- Mohegan-Pequot: ki (“you (singular)”)
- Powhatan: keer/quire (“you”)
- Quiripi: kee (“you”) (Unquachog)
- Mahican: kuyah (“you (singular)”)
- Unami: ki (“you (singular)”)
- Munsee: kii (“you (singular)”)

References

Bloomfield (1946)
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)
Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, And Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. (2003, →ISBN, page 101