Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/na·pe·gʷa

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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

Noun

*na·pe·gʷa

  1. male

Descendants

  • Proto-Algonquian: *na·pe·wa (male, man) (see there for further descendants)
  • Yurok: pegeehl (male animal), pegerk (man) (with regular loss of *ne- and addition of nominalizing suffixes)

References

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