pegeehl

Yurok

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *na·pe·gʷa (“male”), with regular loss of *ne- and addition of nominalizing suffix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɣiɬ/

Noun

pegeehl

1. male (animal)

References

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)