Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-yawi

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

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *-tewi, *-ʔewi, whence also Yurok tew (“flesh”).

Noun

*-yawi

1. body or flesh

Usage notes

This term was always possessed:

• *ni·yawi (“my body”)
• *ki·yawi (“your body”)
• *wi·yawi (“her or his body”)

Descendants

• Central Agonquian:
  • Cree: miyaw/ᒥᔭᐤ (miyaw, “body”)
  • Menominee: ne·yaw (“my body”)
  • Ojibwe: niiyaw (“my body”), giiyaw (“your body”), wiiyaw (“her or his body”)
  • Shawnee: wiiya (“body”)
  • Miami: niiyawi (“myself; my body”)

References

• Aubin (1975)
• David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)