Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/meskwi

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

Noun

*meskwi

blood
red

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- Blackfoot: mawk'sinum (“red”)
- Arapaho: bé' (“red”)
- Nawathinehena: maoxtaheini (“red”)
- Gros Ventre: baxa'aⁿ (“red”)
- Cheyenne: ma'- (“red”), ma'e (“blood”)
Central Algonquian:
- Cree: mihko/ᒥᐦᑯ (mihko, “blood; red”)
- Naskapi: miihkw (miihkw, “blood”), miihkwaaw (miihkwaaw, “it is red”)
- Menominee: mɛhki·h (“blood”), mɛhki·w (“it is red”)
- Ojibwe: miskwi (“blood”), miskwaa (“it is red”)
- Potawatomi: mskwe' (“blood”), me'skwak (“red”)
- Fox: meshkothiwa (“be red”)
- Miami: (ni)mehkoma (“(my) vein, pulse”)
Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: megwe'g (“red”)
- Abenaki: m(s)kwi (“red”)
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: mqeyu (“she, he or it is red”) (n-mihkw-ey (“I am red”), mkw-eyo (“he is red”))
- Massachusett: musquéheonk (“blood”), musquè (“it is red”)
- Mohegan-Pequot: musqi (“blood”), musqisu- (“he is red”)
- Quiripi: sqúayo (“red”) (Unquachog)
- Unami: hmukw (“blood”), màxksu (“she or he is red”)

References

James A. Geary, Proto-Algonquian *çk: Further Examples, in Language, volume 17, number 4 (October - December 1941), pages 304-310: *meçkw-
Algonquian Linguistics, volume 4 (1978), page 17: *meskwi
Papers of the ninth Algonquian Conference (edited by William Cowan; 1978), page 133: *meskwi 'red'
Goddard (1982)
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: *meçkwi
Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho →ISBN, 1994), page 99: *meskwi 'red'; *meskwaaki 'when it is red'
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN: *meçkw-