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... word , and means so much , for it expresses the feeling of being uncomfortable , where and by what . The second word SEMI is also very expressive and a beautiful word . It means " Give me something to eat , " that is , something that ...
... word , and means so much , for it expresses the feeling of being uncomfortable , where and by what . The second word SEMI is also very expressive and a beautiful word . It means " Give me something to eat , " that is , something that ...
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... word - initial position ; both commonly indicate pre - consonantal h , both write ' au ' for the long vowel a , and both tend to leave off post- vocalic w at the end of a word . All four of these features are exemplified in a word from ...
... word - initial position ; both commonly indicate pre - consonantal h , both write ' au ' for the long vowel a , and both tend to leave off post- vocalic w at the end of a word . All four of these features are exemplified in a word from ...
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... word initial [ h ] is lost 22 as are word final 23 nasals . Thomas adds nasals in two of five cases where the Latin word would otherwise end in a vowel.24 The reason for this is not immediately obvious . 26 Consonant clusters are ...
... word initial [ h ] is lost 22 as are word final 23 nasals . Thomas adds nasals in two of five cases where the Latin word would otherwise end in a vowel.24 The reason for this is not immediately obvious . 26 Consonant clusters are ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
MEANINGS | 16 |
H Christoph Wolfart University of Manitoba | 37 |
Copyright | |
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aawa Abnaki affix Albemarle area Algonquian languages American Androscoggin Androscoggin River animate appears auas Bloomfield Brunswick Museum century Champlain Society Chesapeake area Chickahominy river Chimo colonial Comp consonant Cree culture curriculum Davis Inlet dialects Dibblee dictionary England English Etchemin être European examples Fort Chimo French Golden Lake grammatical History Hudson Bay ibid independent Index inventories James John Kennebec River Kyrie l'enfant Latin linguistic Malecite Maliseet Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Massachusetts materials medicines Micmac Mii dash missionaries Montagnais Namieu Narragansett narrative Naskapi Newfoundland noko'siksi noms noun phrase obviative Ojibwa Ottawa paper Passamaquoddy Penobscot Plantation Indians plural probate records pronoun Proto-Algonquian Quebec refer relations relative clauses Roanoke area Ruperts House Saint Francis Saint John River Schefferville sentence shaman social speakers stories structure suffixes tense term thematic third person Thomas Toronto traditional tribe tshe University village vowel Wabanaki witches Woodstock word y-dialects Youghtanund Youghtanund river