Reconstruction talk:Proto-Algonquian/-θeni

There were at keast two other PA words from which Algonquian words for "breast" or "breastfeed" derive:
 * 1) One which Greenberg (citing Siebert (1975)) writes as tohša, which led to:
 * 2) * Cree /  (compare  / )
 * (loan:) Chinook Jargon:
 * 1) * Ojibwe doodooshim
 * 2) * Algonquin totoc ("nipple")
 * 3) * Abenaki
 * 4) * (probably:) Powhatan otaus ("woman's breast")
 * Like (me)ɬeni, this one seems to have been used in a compound with nepyi, to create a word for "milk" (lit. "breast-water"):
 * Abenaki
 * Compare:
 * Cree /,  /
 * Ojibwe
 * 1) Another:,.

Mohegan has, nôtam-,. Powhatan has mutsun / mutson ("milk"). Cheyenne has he'e-nénestȯtse he'e-vone, -vononá. Cree also has /.

The Yurok words for "breast" and "milk" are and  (perhaps a shortening of newon).

- -sche (discuss) 19:26, 5 July 2014 (UTC)