Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/kuNa

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

*kuNa (Stubbs 2011)

  1. husband

Alternative reconstructions

  • *kuna (Manaster Ramer 1993, Miller 1967)
  • *kuŋa (Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

*kuNa (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: cuuna
  • Corachol:
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: koongya
    • Proto-Numic: *ku(h)ma
  • Pimic:
  • Tepehuan:
    • Northern Tepehuan: kúna (“have a husband”)
    • Southeastern Tepehuan: kun
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: cuná

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1240. *kuNa / *kumCa / *kuCma ‘husband’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, pages 221–2
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*kuna ‘husband’”, 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 204 of 199–209
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “504a husband *kuna. 504b *kuma. 504c to marry a man.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 68
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(97) *kuŋa husband”, in Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 141
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