Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/pe·šekwi
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Proto-Algic root which may have been borrowed from or into Proto-Salish; see *nekwet- for more.
Numeral
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| Cardinal : *pe·šekwi | ||
*pe·šekwi
- one (1)
Synonyms
[edit]- *nekwetwi (“one”)
Descendants
[edit]- meaning "one"
- Abenaki: pazekw (“one (in counting)”)
- Algonquin: pêjik (“one”)
- Arapaho: čêːséy, ceesey (“one”)
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: pesq (“one (in counting)”)
- Massachusett: pasuk (“one”)
- Ojibwe: bezhig (“one”)
- Penobscot: pesəgw-, besəgw- (“one”)
- Quiripi: pasukq
- meaning "hundred"
- Massachusett: pasuk(wog) (“hundred”) (nequt pasuk(wog) (“one hundred”))
- Mohegan-Pequot: pásuq (“hundred”)
- Narragansett: pawsuck (“hundred”)
See also
[edit]- Cree peyak / ᐯᔭᐠ (peyak, “one”), piyak / ᐱᔭᐠ (piyak, “one”), said to be from "Common Cree" *pe·yak(w)
References
[edit]- Richard Rhodes and David Costa, The History of Algonquian Number Words, in Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, pages 182 and 183
- Bryan Sykes, The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution (1999), page 58