Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/maLa

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

*maLa (Stubbs 2011)

  1. child, offspring
  2. (particularly) daughter (female offspring)

Alternative reconstructions

  • *mal, *ma (Miller 1967)
  • *mala (Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: maala (“daughter (of a man)”)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: maana (“girl; daughter”)
  • Pimic:
    • O'odham: maḍ (“child”, term used by the mother)
  • Tepehuan:
    • Northern Tepehuan: márai (“child”)
    • Southeastern Tepehuan: mar (“child”)
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: mará (“daughter (of a man)”)

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “140. *maLa ‘child, offspring’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 72
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “86 child *mal, *ma”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 25
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(84) *mala child—with female reference, i.e., child of woman, man’s daughter, girl”, 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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