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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-xka·ti
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Proto-Algonquian
Etymology
From the same Proto-Algic root as Yurok ʔnechkah, 'ne-chkah (“my foot”) and Wiyot čkač (“leg”).
Noun
*-xka·ti, *-xka·či (plural *-xka·tari)
- leg, foot
Usage notes
- This term was (and in child languages remains) inalienable; it had to be preceded by a personal prefix such as *ni- (“my”), *ki- (“your (singular)”), or *wi- (“his or her”), as in *nexka·či (“my leg or foot”).
- č was an allophone of t before i, for which reason the term could just as well be written as -xka·či.
Descendants
- Central Algonquian:
- Menominee: -hka·t (“leg”)
- Fox: -hkâchi (“foot”)
- Miami: nihkaati (“my foot”)
- Eastern Algonquian:
- probably Abenaki (m)kôd (“leg”)
- probably Mohegan-Pequot -sit (“foot”)
- Unami: hwikat (“leg”)
See also
- *-θkani (“bone, leg”)
References
- Siebert (1975)
- Goddard (1977)
- Greenberg (1987)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN