Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/mïcaC

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

*mïcaC (Stubbs 2011)

moon

Alternative reconstructions

*mïca (Manaster Ramer 1993)

Descendants

*mïcaC (unmarked)

Cahita:
- Mayo: meecha
Corachol:
- Huichol: métsa
Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Proto-Numic: *mïʼa, *mïha
  - Southern Numic:
    - Kawaiisu: müa
    - Ute: müa
  - Central Numic:
    - Comanche: mʉa
    - Panamint: mög‘atsi
    - Shoshone: me'a, mea
  - Western Numic:
    - Mono (California): tadamɨ̱'a, tadawɨ̱'a
    - Northern Paiute: muha
Tarahumaran:
- Central Tarahumara: michá

*mïcaC-ta (absolutive)

Proto-Nahuan: *meeȼ-tlɨ (“moon”)
- Classical Nahuatl: mētztli
- Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: metztli
- Mecayapan Nahuatl: me̱tzti
- Pipil: mētzti
- Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mietztli̱
- Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: metztli
Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Cahuilla: menill
- Tübatulabal: mɨ·yal (“month”)

*mïcaC-wït (augmentative)

Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Hopi: muuyaw

References

Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1451. *mïcaC (perhaps < *mancaL) ‘moon’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎^[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, pages 250–1
Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*mïca ‘moon’”, 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