Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/katï

This Proto-Uto-Aztecan 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-Uto-Aztecan

Noun

*katï (Stubbs 2011)

  1. (singular subject) to sit
  2. to reside, to live somewhere

Usage notes

The plural form of this verb is suppletive in many languages.

Alternative reconstructions

  • *katïC (Manaster Ramer 1993)
  • *kate, *ka (Miller 1967)
  • *kaₛtɨC (Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

*katï (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: cátte-c (“be sitting”)
  • Proto-Nahuan:
    • Classical Nahuatl: cah (“be”)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: qatu (“be sitting; reside”, plural yeese)
    • Proto-Numic: *katï
  • Pimic:
    • O'odham: ka꞉c (“be lying down; live somewhere”, plural ve꞉c (first meaning), ceveḍ (second meaning))
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: kaátɨ (“be lying down”, plural vɨɨ́tɨ)
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: kaat (“be lying down (inanimate)”, plural bɨɨt)

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “2006. *katï / *kattï ‘sit’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, pages 319–20
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*katïC ‘to sit’”, in “Blood, tears, and murder: the evidence for Proto-Uto-Aztecan syllable-final consonants”, in Marle, Jaap van, editor, Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, 12-16 August 1991, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 205 of 199–209
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “381a sit down (sg.) *kate.; 381b *ka.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 33
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(42) *kaₛtɨC to sit”, in Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 139
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