Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/pemyi

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

• *pemi (older reconstruction)

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *peʔmeye (“grease”), whence also Yurok pemey (“grease, cooking fat, oil”) and Wiyot bo'm, pu'm (“grease”).

Noun

*pemyi

1. grease, oil, fat

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Blackfoot: pomís (“fat, lard”)
  • Cheyenne: ame (“grease”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: ᐱᒥᕀ (pimiy, “grease, oil, lard”), ᐱᒦᐦᑳᐣ (pimiihkaan, “pemmican”)
    • English: pemmican (loanword from Cree)
  • Moose Cree: ᐱᒥᔾ
  • Swampy Cree: ᐱᒥᔾ
  • Southern East Cree: ᐱᒦ (pimii)
  • Northern East Cree: ᐱᒦ (pimii)
  • Naskapi: ᐱᒥᔾ (pimiy)
  • Ojibwe: bimide (“grease, oil, lard”)
  • Ottawa: bmide
  • Potawatomi: bmedé
  • Menominee: pemēh
  • Miami: pimi (“fat, grease”)
  • Fox: pemi- (“grease, oil”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Abenaki: bemi, pemi (“grease, oil, fat”)
  • probably Malecite-Passamaquoddy mimey (“grease, oil”)
  • probably Mikmaq mimei (“grease, oil”)
  • Penobscot: pə̀mi
  • Delaware:
    • Unami: pëmi (“lard, fat, grease”)
    • Munsee: pumúy
  • Mohegan-Pequot: pum (“grease, oil, butter”)
  • probably Massachussetts pummee (“oil,grease,fat”)

References

• Goddard (1981)