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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/-tewi
Proto-Algic
Alternative forms
- *-ʔewi
Noun
*-tewi
- body or flesh
Usage notes
This term was always possessed:
- *wi·tewi, *wi·ʔewi (“her or his body”)
Descendants
- Yurok: tew (“flesh”)
- Algonquian: *-yawi (“body or flesh”)
References
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)