Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/sʔe·gʔ-
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Proto-Algic
Alternative forms
Noun
*sʔe·gʔ-
- the madrone tree (Arbutus menziesii) or its fruit
Descendants
- Yurok: s'e'goh (“madrone tree”)
- Wiyot: the first element of ca'g(itcôk) (“madrona (berries)”) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), ŝág(iŝɨ?n) (“madrone”) (i.e. šág(išɨʔn)) (in Proulx's 1992 orthography), šog(ičhahn) (“madrone berries”) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography)
References
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992) (*sʔe·gʷ-)
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004) (*sʔe·gʔ-)