Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wetempe
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Proto-Algic[edit]
Noun[edit]
*wetempe
- head (perhaps originally of an animal)
Descendants[edit]
- Wiyot: duʔwɨ́tbɨt (“her (animal's?) head”) (with possessive prefix duʔ- added)
- Proto-Algonquian: *wetempi (“(her, his, its) head, (animal's) brain”)
References[edit]
- Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)