Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/kicu

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

*kicu (Stubbs 2011)

  1. fish

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

*kicu (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: cutchu
  • Corachol:

*kicu-ta (absolutive)

*pa-kicu (literally water-fish)

  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “892. *kicu / *kucu(C) ‘fish’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 175
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*kïcuR ‘fish’”, 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 203 of 199–209
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “173 fish.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 35