Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/ki·ra

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

• *ki·la (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *ki·la (“you (singular)”).

Pronoun

*ki·ra

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

Related terms

• *ki·rwa·wa (“you (plural)”)

Descendants

• Plains Algonquian:
  • Blackfoot: kiistó
• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi:
    • Cree:
      • Plains Cree: kîya/ᑮᔭ (“you (singular)”)
      • Woods Cree: kīθa
      • Swampy Cree: kīna
      • Moose Cree: kīla
      • Atikamekw kīr
    • Montagnais-Naskapi:
      • East Cree:
        • Northern East Cree: čiy
        • Southern East Cree: čiy
      • Montagnais: čīl (Western), čīn (Eastern)
      • Naskapi: chiiy, čiy
  • Eastern Great Lakes:
    • Ojibwe-Potawatomi:
      • Ojibwe: giin (“you (singular)”)
      • Algonquin: ki, kit
      • Potawatomi: gin (“you”)
    • Fox (Sauk): kîna (“you (singular)”)
    • Miami: kiila (“you (singular)”)
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Mi'kmaq: gi'l (“you (singular)”)
  • Abenaki: kia (“you (singular)”)
  • Penobscot: ki·'a (“you (singular)”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: ki (“you (singular)”)
  • Powhatan: keer/quire (“you”)
  • Quiripi: kee (“you”) (Unquachog)
  • Mahican: kuyah (“you (singular)”)
  • Unami: ki (“you (singular)”)
  • Munsee: kii (“you (singular)”)

References

• Bloomfield (1946)
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
• Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic VI: Conditioned Yurok reflexes of Proto-Algic vowels, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics 27:124–138 (2004)
• Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, And Siouan Linguistics in Memory of Frank T. Siebert, Jr. (2003, →ISBN, page 101