Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-xka·ti

This Proto-Algonquian 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.

From the same Proto-Algic root as Yurok ʔnechkah, 'ne-chkah (“my foot”) and Wiyot čkač (“leg”).

*-xka·ti, *-xka·či (plural *-xka·tari)

1. leg, foot

• 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.

• Plains Algonquian
  • Blackfoot: -ohkat (“leg”), as in nohkát (“my leg”)
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: miskât / ᒥᐢᑳᐟ (miskaat, “leg”)
  • Menominee: -hka·t (“leg”)
  • Fox: -hkâchi (“foot”)
  • Miami: nihkaati (“my foot”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • probably Abenaki (m)kôd (“leg”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: -hkôt (“leg”)
  • Unami: hwikat (“leg”)
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -kat (“leg”), as in nkat (“my leg”)

• *-θkani (“bone, leg”)

• 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