Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/menwa
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Proto-Algonquian
[edit]Verb
[edit]*menwa
- she or he drinks
Descendants
[edit]- taking this form as representative of the whole paradigm
- Plains Algonquian:
- Central Algonquian:
- Shawnee: menwa (“she or he drinks”)
- Miami: minwa ~ meenka (“she or he drinks”); nimene (“I drink”) (from *nemene (“I drink”))
- Cree: minihkwew / ᒥᓂᐦᑫᐧᐤ (minihkeyw, “s/he drinks”)
- Ojibwe: mina' (vta) (“give her or him a drink, give (it) to her or him to drink”); minikwe (vai) (“she or he drinks”)
- Eastern Algonquian:
References
[edit]- Bloomfield (1946)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
- Ningewance, Patricia M. Zagataagan: A Northern Ojibwe Dictionary. Anishaabemowin Ikidowinan gaa-niibidebii'igaadegin dago gaye ewemitigoozhiibii'igaadegin (2009)