Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/pe·šekwi

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 a Proto-Algic root which may have been borrowed from or into Proto-Salish; see *nekwet- for more.

*pe·šekwi

1. one (1)

• *nekwetwi (“one”)

meaning "one"

• Abenaki: pazekw (“one (in counting)”)
• Algonquin: pêjik (“one”)
• Arapaho: čêːséy, ceesey (“one”)
• Malecite-Passamaquoddy: pesq (“one (in counting)”)
• Massachusett: pasuk (“one”)
• Ojibwe: bezhig (“one”)
• Penobscot: pesəgw-, besəgw- (“one”)
• Quiripi: pasukq

meaning "hundred"

• Massachusett: pasuk(wog) (“hundred”) (nequt pasuk(wog) (“one hundred”))
• Mohegan-Pequot: pásuq (“hundred”)
• Narragansett: pawsuck (“hundred”)

• Cree peyak / ᐯᔭᐠ (peyak, “one”), piyak / ᐱᔭᐠ (piyak, “one”), said to be from "Common Cree" *pe·yak(w)

• Richard Rhodes and David Costa, The History of Algonquian Number Words, in Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, and Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, pages 182 and 183
• Bryan Sykes, The Human Inheritance: Genes, Language, and Evolution (1999), page 58