Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ki·rwa·wa

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 Proto-Algic *ki·lew- (“you (plural)”), via an intermediate form *ki·lewa·wa.

*ki·rwa·wa

1. you (plural); second-person plural pronoun

• *ki·ra (“you (singular)”)

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Blackfoot: kiistówaawa
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: kiyawâw/ᑭᔭᐚᐤ (kiyawaaw, “you (plural)”)
    • Montagnais: tshinuau
    • Atikamekw: kirawaw
    • Naskapi: ᒋᔨᐛᐤ (chiyiwaaw)
    • Northern East Cree: ᒌᔨᐧᐋᐤ (ciiyiyaaw)
    • Southern East Cree: ᒌᐧᐋᐤ (ciiyaaw)
    • Plains Cree: kîyawâw, ᑮᔭᐚᐤ (“you (plural)”)
  • Ojibwe: giinawaa (“you (plural)”)
  • Potawatomi: ginwa
  • Miami: kiilwa (“you (plural)”)
  • Fox: kînwâwa (“you (plural)”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Mi'kmaq: gilew (“you (plural)”)
  • Abenaki: kilowô / kilowôwô (“you (plural, indefinite number)”); kiuwô (“you (plural)”)
  • Penobscot: ki·'ləwa (“you (plural)”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: kiyaw (“you (plural)”)
  • Mahican: kuyāāwah (“you (plural)”)
  • Unami: kiluwa (“you (plural)”)
  • Munsee: kiilóowa (“you (plural”)

• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)