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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/mehše

This Proto-Algic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Algic

Noun

*mehše

  1. fire

Descendants
  • Yurok: mech (“fire”)
  • Wiyot: mɑs (“fire”) (in Reichard's 1925 orthography), bas (“fire”) (in the 1993 Wiyot handbook’s orthography)
  • Proto-Algonquian: *mehši (“firewood”)

References
  • Paul Proulx, Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, in Studies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)
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