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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-aki
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Proto-Algonquian
Suffix
*-aki
- suffix used to pluralize animate nouns
- *e·rikwa (“ant”) → *e·rikwaki (“ants”)
Descendants
- Central Algonquian:
- Cree: -ak, -k
- Menominee: -ak, -ok
- Ojibwe: -g, -ag, -iig, -oog, -wag
- Fox: -aki
- Shawnee: -aki
- Miami: -waki, -ooki
- Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: -g, -ug
- Abenaki: -ak
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -ok, -uwok
- Mohegan-Pequot: -ak
- Unami: -àk
See also
- *-ari
References
- Siebert (1975)
- Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN