Abstract
0. Introduction. In this article I present a list of the Proto-AlgonquianRitwan verbs arranged according to the shapes of their roots.' This list includes all verbs I have been able to reconstruct with some degree of confidence. I describe the vowel alternations shown by a few of the verbs and discuss the role of these alternations in the protolanguage. I hope also in this article to refute the statement that good AlgonquianRitwan cognate sets are limited to pronouns, lower numbers, and bodypart terms (Teeter 1974:198). There are at least as many persuasive cognate sets among the verbs. In fact, many of the cognate sets involving body-part terms in Haas (1958) appear to me to be of doubtful validity and should be reexamined.2 A Proto-Algonquian-Ritwan verbal root could not be more than one syllable long. It could contain a vowel, a vowel, or no vowel.3 In a few verbs a vowel alternated with no vowel. I call this process of alternation ablaut and I call the types of roots full grade, reduced grade, and zero grade.
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