Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/e·mehkwa·na

This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Noun

*e·mehkwa·na

spoon (as might be made from a gourd/squash)

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- probably Arapaho: heebíyoo (“spoon”)
- Cheyenne: háméško (“spoon”)
Central Algonquian:
- Cree: êmihkwân/ᐁᒥᐦᑳᐧᐣ (emihkaayn, “(big) spoon”)
- Swampy Cree: ᐁᒥᐦᒀᓐ (emihkwân)
- Naskapi: ᐊᒥᒂᓐ (amikwaan)
- Montagnais: emikuan
- Northern East Cree: ᐋᒥᐦᐧᑳᓐ (aamihykaan)
- Southern East Cree: ᐁᒥᐦᐧᑳᓐ (emihykaan)
- Menominee: ɛ·meskwan (“spoon, ladle”)
- Ojibwe: emikwaan -ag (“spoon, ladle”)
- Potawatomi: e'mkwanes (“spoon”)
- Fox: êmehkwâni (“spoon”)
- Shawnee: heemhkwa
- Miami: eemihkwaani (“squash, pumpkin”)
Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: amqwan (“spoon”), Mi'kmaq: amqwanji'j (“spoon”)
- Penobscot: èmkʷαn
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: emqan (“spoon”)
- Mahican: aamhãan
- Munsee: eemhwáanus
- Unami: èmhònës (“spoon”)

References

Frank Siebert, Discrepant Consonant Clusters Ending in *-k- in Proto-Algonquian, a Proposed Interpretation of Saltatory Sound Changes, Contributions to Anthropology: Linguistics I (National Museum of Canada, bulletin number 214, Anthropological Series number 78, pages 48-59)
Siebert (1975)
David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
Ningewance, Patricia M. Zagataagan: A Northern Ojibwe Dictionary. Anishaabemowin Ikidowinan gaa-niibidebii'igaadegin dago gaye ewemitigoozhiibii'igaadegin (2009)