Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/erenyiwa
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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. |
Proto-Algonquian
Alternative forms
- *elenyiwa (alternative orthography)
Noun
*erenyiwa
Synonyms
- *na·pe·wa (“man, male”)
Descendants
- Plains Algonquian:
- Central Algonquian:
- Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
- Cree:
- Montagnais-Naskapi:
- Menominee: enɛ·niw (“man”)
- Eastern Great Lakes:
- Ojibwe-Potawatomi:
- Ojibwe: inini, nini (“man”)
- Algonquin: inini (“man, male”)
- Potawatomi: nine (“man”)
- Fox: neniwa, ineniwa (“man”)
- Shawnee: hileni
- Miami: ileniwa (oldest form) → alenia (old form) → lenia (modern form)
- Ojibwe-Potawatomi:
- Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
- Eastern Algonquian: *ərənəw (“man”)
References
- Bloomfield (1946)
- David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
- Correspondences of Cree and Ojibwe Sounds and Proto-Algonquian, as described by Leonard Bloomfield in 'Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology # 6' (New York - 1946), with modifications proposed by Ives Goddard in 'The west-to-east cline in Algonquian dialectology' (Actes du 25e Congrès des Algonquinistes, 1994)