Database
Quileute
(Pacific side of Olympic Peninsula in Washington; Chimakuan)
Summary:
Proto-Chimakuan root-initial and root-final consonants underwent metathesis across an intervening vowel in Quileute.
Summary:
Proto-Chimakuan root-initial and root-final consonants underwent metathesis across an intervening vowel in Quileute.
Examples:
| Proto-Chimakuan | Quileute | |
|---|---|---|
| *l'ay- | ya?l- | 'near, toward' |
| *m'as- | si?b- | 'to smell, nose' |
Conditions:
No information currently available.
No information currently available.
Motivation:
Borrowing (Mielke & Hume 2000): Quileute roots that are reported to have undergone metathesis have corresponding roots in Salish languages. This may suggest that the existence of apparently metathesized forms in the language results from multiple borrowings rather than metathesis.
Borrowing (Mielke & Hume 2000): Quileute roots that are reported to have undergone metathesis have corresponding roots in Salish languages. This may suggest that the existence of apparently metathesized forms in the language results from multiple borrowings rather than metathesis.
Related Information:
Proto-Chimakuan *m' corresponds to b or ?b in Quileute.
Proto-Chimakuan *m' corresponds to b or ?b in Quileute.
| Proto-Chimakuan | Quileute | |
|---|---|---|
| *m'as- | -bas | 'to lift, heavy' |
| *m'aL- | Li?b- | 'to sleep' |
Symbols:
? = glottal stop
l' = glottalized lateral
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal
L = voiceless lateral
Last Updated: 6/18/2007
? = glottal stop
l' = glottalized lateral
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal
L = voiceless lateral
Last Updated: 6/18/2007
References:
- Mielke, Jeff & Elizabeth Hume. 2001. Consequences of Word Recognition for Metathesis. In Hume, Elizabeth, Norval Smith and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing. Leiden: HIL.
- Powell, J. V. 1985. An occurrence of metathesis in Chumakuan. In Acson, Veneeta Z., & R. Leed. eds., For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.(*12 point font, left aligned)
