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Reconstruction:Proto-Algic/wetempe

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

*wetempe

  1. head (perhaps originally of an animal)

Descendants
  • Wiyot: duʔwɨ́tbɨt (“her (animal's?) head”) (with possessive prefix duʔ- added)
  • Algonquian: *wetempi (“(her, his, its) head, (animal's) brain”)

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