Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wʔeɬkwene

This Proto-Algic 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-Algic

Alternative forms

  • *wʔeθkwene
  • *wʔeɬkwane, *wʔeθkwane

Etymology

The initial w- either is the third-person prefix *w-, or came to be re-analysed as it. Compare *wʔeθkan.

Noun

*wʔeɬkwene

  1. liver

Descendants

  • Yurok: 'wrhlkun (“liver”)
  • Wiyot: watwar (“liver”)
  • Proto-Algonquian: *-θkweni (“liver”)

References

  • Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)
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