Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ma·nθehsi

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Proto-Algonquian

Noun

*ma·nθehsi

flint, flintstone, knife

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- Cheyenne: mótšėškeh, motȧhke
- Arapaho: wóoxe
Central Algonquian:
- Fox: mâtethi
- Miami: maalhsi
- Shawnee: maanehθi
- Kickapoo: maateθi
- Naskapi: ᒪᑎᔅ (matis)
- Montagnais: matish
Eastern Algonquian
- Unami: mahëlës
- Munsee: máhlus
- Mahican: mãʔnith
- Mi'kmaq: mals

Some Eastern Algonquian forms appear in compounds with *-a·peθk- (“stone”)

- The first morpheme in malsapsq (“flintstone”)
- The first morpheme in Massachusett: môhshipsq (“flintstone”)

References

Goddard, Ives (1982) “The Historical Phonology of Munsee”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 48, number 1, Chicago: The University of Chicago, →DOI, →JSTOR
David Costa, Shawnee Noun Plurals, in Anthropological Linguistics, 43:3 (2001)

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