Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/askyi

This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Algonquian

Alternative forms

*atkyi

Etymology

From Proto-Algic atk-, ačk- (“land, earth”), whence (according to Proulx) also Yurok hlkeyom (“clay”); compare Yurok hlkehl (“land, ground, clay, dirt”).

Noun

*askyi (locative *askinki)

land, soil, ground, earth
*netaskyi (“my land”)

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- Cheyenne: ho'e (“land, earth (not dirt)”)
Central Algonquian:
- Cree: askîy/ᐊᐢᑮᕀ (askiiy, “earth”) (asiskîy/ᐊᓯᐢᑮᕀ (asiskiiy, “earth, soil, ground”))
- Menominee: ahke·w (“earth, land”)
- Ojibwe: aki (“earth, land, ground”)
- Miami: ahki (“field”)
Eastern Algonquian:
- Abenaki: aki (“land”)
- Massachusett: ohke (“land”)
- Mohegan-Pequot: ahki (“land, earth, dirt, ground”)
- probably Mahican hkeek (“earth, land”)
- Unami: (nt)aki (“(my) land”)
- Nanticoke: ahki (“earth, land”)

References

Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992): *atkyi
Berman, Howard (1992), “A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 58, issue 3, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, JSTOR 3519790: *axkyi
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, citing Sibert (1941): *axkyi
David Costa, New Notes on Miami-Illinois (2008): *askyi