Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/pya·-

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

Verb

*pya·-

1. come

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • possibly Blackfoot puksiput (“I come here”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: pâ- (“come”)
  • Ojibwe bi-izhaa (“she or he comes (approaches)”)
  • Fox: pyêwa (“come”)
  • Miami: pyaaci (“she or he comes”), pyaahkice (“she or he must come”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Massachuset: peyau (“comes hither”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: piyô- (“she or he comes”)
  • Mahican -pà (“come”), npà (“I come”), kpà (“you come”),
  • Unami pè (“he comes or arrives”), mpa (“I come”),

References

• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN