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.

*e·hsa

1. shell;mollusc/mollusk

• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree:êsa /ᐁᓴ(esa,“clam shell, sea shell”)
  • Moose Cree:ᐁᐢ(ês)
  • Montagnais:esh(“mollusk, shell”)
  • Naskapi:ᐊᔅ(as)
  • Ojibwe:es(“clam; shell”)
  • Fox:êthîha(“shell; shellfish”)
  • Miami:eehsa
• Eastern Algonquian:
  • Mohegan-Pequot:ayáhs(“seashell, shell”)
  • Unami:èhës(“clam; clamshell”)
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy:ess(“clam”)
  • Mi'kmaq:e's(“clam”)
  • Penobscot:ess(“clam, bivalve shell, mollusk”)

• Costa, David J. (2003),The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,→ISBN
• Berman, Howard (1992), “A Restriction on the Shape of Proto-Algonquian Nouns”, inInternational Journal of American Linguistics, volume58, number 3, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,→JSTOR

• Proto-Algonquian lemmas
• Proto-Algonquian nouns
• alg-pro:Mollusks

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