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Proto-Algonquian -i·t- 'Fellow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Bloomfield*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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[This paper outlines the uses, in Central Algonquian, of a peculiar morphological element, intermediate between root and suffix.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 17 , Issue 4-Part1: October-December , December 1941 , pp. 292 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © 1941 by the Linguistic Society of America

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1 PA = Proto-Algonquian. The symbols are used in their ordinary values; e· in Fox is decidedly open (English hat), and in Ojibwa somewhat open; for Menomini and Cree this symbol designates a closer vowel (German See); ε, ε· in Menomini are decidedly open. In contrast with the outline in Lang. 1.130 (1925) I now believe that PA had only four vowels a, e, i, o, each in short and long quantity; PA 1 did not alternate with š; postconsonantal wi, yi still existed. Hence I now set up PA *mi·li give thou it to him, Cree miyi, mi·ni and view Fox mi·ši, Menomini me·sen, Ojibwa mi·š as analogic new-formations; similarly, PA *pr·ntwike·wa he enters a dwelling, *elenyiwa man, *nesitali my feet do not demand postulation of a fifth short vowel.

2 This is the correct form; the rendering with short a in the second syllable (Festschrift Meinhof 400 [Hamburg, 1927]) is an error of mine.

3 I use H to designate an undetermined prior element in a cluster.

4 Michelson, IJAL 8.40 (1933).