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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/-li·ne
Proto-Algic
Noun
*-li·ne
- eye
Usage notes
This term was always possessed, e.g. as *meli·ne (alternative orthography: *meliːni).
Descendants
- Wiyot: /bəˈlid/ (with the indefinite third-person prefix)
- Yurok: me-lin (“someone's eye(s)”) (with the indefinite third-person prefix)
References
- Proulx (1984)
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)