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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-ari
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Proto-Algonquian
Alternative forms
- *-ali (alternative orthography)
Suffix
*-ari
- suffix used to pluralize inanimate nouns
- *-hpani (“lung”) → *-hpanari (“lungs”)
Descendants
- Central Algonquian:
- Ojibwe: -n, -an, -iin, -oon
- Menominee: -an, -on
- Fox: -ani
- Shawnee: -ali
- Miami: -a
- Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: -al
- Abenaki: -al
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -ol
- Unami: -a
See also
- *-aki
References
- 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
- Papers of the Algonquian Conference (2007), page 267: the peripheral suffixes PA*-i inan. sg. (> PEA *-0) and *-ari inan. pl. (> PEA *-ar)