ThisProto-Algonquian entry containsreconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directlyattested, but are hypothesized to have existed based oncomparative evidence.

*-ehs

1. suffix used to form diminutives; also found in certain kinship terms

• The suffix could just as well be written*-ehs- or*-ehsa because it was usually followed by the final animate marker-a.
• Several languages suggest a form with initial-s-, i.e.*-sehs (*-sehs- or*-sehsa).

descendants of *-ehs and*-sehs

• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree:
    • Plains cree: Plains Cree:-(V)sis,-is,-s
  • Menominee:-e·hsɛh
  • Miami:(older form)-eehsa,(now more common)-eenhsa
  • Ojibwe:-s
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Abenaki:-is,-sis
  • Penobscot:-is,-sis
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy:-ehsis (ahtulhaw(ehsis)),-ahsis (mimey(ahsis)),-sis (askat(sis)),-is,-es
  • Mohegan-Pequot:-ihs,-sihs,-ohs (as inayumohs(“little dog, puppy”))
  • Unami:-tët

• Willard Walker,The Proto-Algonquians (1975)
• James Wherry,Eastern Algonquian Relationships to "proto-Algonquian" Social Organizations (1979)
• Paul Proulx,Hypotheses in diachronic linguistics, inIn Honor of Mary Haas: From the Haas Festival Conference On Native American Linguistics, edited by William Shipley (1988)
• Paul Proulx,Proto-Algic IV: Nouns, inStudies in Native American Languages VII, volume 17, number 2 (1992)
• Anthropological Linguistics (journal of Indiana University's Department of Anthropology), volume 39, issue 1 (1997)

• Proto-Algonquian lemmas
• Proto-Algonquian suffixes

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