Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/-ari

This Proto-Algonquian 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-Algonquian

Alternative forms

*-ali (alternative orthography)

Suffix

*-ari

suffix used to pluralize inanimate nouns
*-hpani (“lung”) → *-hpanari (“lungs”)

Descendants

Central Algonquian:
- Ojibwe: -n, -an, -iin, -oon
- Menominee: -an, -on
- Fox: -ani
- Shawnee: -ali
- Miami: -a
Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: -al
- Abenaki: -al
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -ol
- Unami: -a

References

Marc Picard, Principles and Methods in Historical Phonology: From Proto-Algonkian to Arapaho
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN
Papers of the Algonquian Conference (2007), page 267: the peripheral suffixes PA*-i inan. sg. (> PEA *-0) and *-ari inan. pl. (> PEA *-ar)

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