Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ke-

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

• *ket- (see usage notes at ne-)
• *ki·- (in some compounds, see usage notes at ne-)

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *keʔ-, whence also Yurok k'e- (“your”) and Wiyot khu-, ku- (“your”), k- (“your”).

Prefix

*ke-

1. your (singular)

   *ki·piči (“your tooth”)

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Blackfoot: ko-, ki-, k-
  • Arapaho: he-
  • Cheyenne: né- (“your”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: ki-, ᑭ- (ki-)
  • Menominee: kɛ-
  • Ojibwe: gi-
  • Fox: k-, kî-
  • Miami: ki- (“your”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Abenaki: k-
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: k-
  • Massachusett: ke-, ku-, k-
  • Mohegan-Pequot: ku-
  • Mahican: k- (“your”)
  • Unami: k-, ki-

Compare Quiripi kee (“you”) (Unquachog).

See also

• *ne-, *we-, *me-

References

• Goddard 1975
• Anthropological Linguistics (the journal of Indiana University's Department of Anthropology), volume 39, issue 1 (1997)
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN