Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/maʼta

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

*maʼta (Stubbs 2011)

  1. metate (grinding stone)

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

*maʼta (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: matta
  • Corachol:
    • Cora: muaatá
    • Huichol: matá
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: mata
    • Proto-Numic: *ma(h)ta
  • Pimic:
    • O'odham: maccuḍ (first syllable)
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: máúturai (first syllable)
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: mattur (first syllable)
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: matá

*maʼta-ta (absolutive)

  • Proto-Nahuan: *mətla-tl (“metate”)
    • Classical Nahuatl: metlatl
    • Highland Puebla Nahuatl: metat
    • Mecayapan Nahuatl: metaꞌ
    • Morelos Nahuatl: metlatl
    • Tetelcingo Nahuatl: metlatl
    • Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: mitlatl
    • → Spanish: metate (from some Nahuan language)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1082. *maʼta / *maCta ‘grinding stone, mortar’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 200
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*mataR ‘metate’”, 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
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