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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/nekwetwi

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

Etymology

From Proto-Algic *nekwet- (“one”), whence also Yurok kohta'r (“one (straight thing)”), kohtoh (“one (round thing)”) and Wiyot go't (“one (person)”), which (like Unami) lost the prefix ne-.[1] The Proto-Algic root may have been borrowed from or into Proto-Salish; see *nekwet- for more.

It has been observed that "the numbers from ‘one’ to ‘five’ all contain a semantically empty initial (root) *ny-, realized as *ne- before a consonant".[2]

Numeral
Proto-Algonquian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *nekwetwi

*nekwetwi

  1. one (1)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Abenaki: negwed- (“one in a series”)
  • Algonquin ningo (“one (used with measures)”)
  • Cheyenne: no'k- (“one, alone”), naest- (“all in one place”)
  • Fox: nekoti (“one”)
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: neqt (“one”)
  • Massachusett: nequt (“one”)
  • Menominee: nekot (“one”)
  • Miami: ninkoti (“one”)
  • Mohegan-Pequot: nuqut (“one”)
  • Ojibwe ningo-, ningodw- (“one”)
  • Penobscot: nəkʷt-,nəkʷət- (“one, lone”)
  • Potawatomi: ngot (“one”)
  • Powhatan: nekut (“one”)
  • Quiripi: nukqútte (“either”) (Quiripi), naqúut (“one”) (Unquachog)
  • Shawnee: nekoti (“one”)
  • Unami: kwëti (“one”)
  • Munsee: ngwúti (“one”)

References
  • Bloomfield (1946)
  • Siebert (1975)
  • Richard Rhodes and David Costa, The History of Algonquian Number Words
  1. Proulx (1984)
  2. Essays in Algonquian, Catawban, And Siouan Linguistics →ISBN, 2003), page 98: "the numbers from ‘one’ to ‘five’ all contain a semantically empty initial (root) *ny-, realized as *ne- before a consonant (PA *nye- and *ni- do not occur), and *-w-i is descriptively segmentable."
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