Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/oynkʷa

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This Proto-Muskogean 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-Muskogean

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Etymology

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Booker (2005) suggests the possibility of a compound term, with the first element deriving from *okaCi (“water”) and an unknown second element.

Verb

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*oynkʷa[1]

  1. to rain

Descendants

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  • Alabama: oyba
  • Chickasaw: omba
  • Choctaw: omba
  • Koasati: oibalaho̱
  • ⇒ Mikasuki: okoːbom (“it rains”)

References

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  1. ^ Booker, Karen (2005) “Muskogean Historical Phonology”, in Hardy, Heather kay and Scancarelli, Janine, editors, Native Languages of the Southeastern United States, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, pages 246–298
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