Reconstruction:Proto-Muskogean/toka

This Proto-Muskogean entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Muskogean

Etymology

From *-t (same-subject conjunctive) +‎ *o (focus/emphatic marker) +‎ *ka (“to say”).

Particle

*toka[1]

  1. (enclitic) a particle used as a quotative; it is said that…

Descendants

  • Alabama: -toha (remote past), -to (remote past)
  • Choctaw: -tok (remote past)
  • Chickasaw: -tok (perfective), -ttook (remote past)
  • Creek: (Seminole) -tok (secondary root)
  • Hitchiti: -toka (perfective)
  • Koasati: -toka (evidential)

References

  1. ^ Booker, Karen (1980) Comparative Muskogean: aspects of Proto-Muskogean verb morphology (Thesis), University of Kansas
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