Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pakaN

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

*pakaN (Stubbs 2011)

  1. reed

Alternative reconstructions

  • *paka (Manaster Ramer 1993)

Descendants

*pakaN

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: baaca
  • Corachol:
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: paaqavi
    • Proto-Numic: *pakaN
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: baká

*pakaN-ta (absolutive)

  • Proto-Nahuan: *aaka-tl (“reed”)
    • Classical Nahuatl: ācatl
    • Highland Puebla Nahuatl: a̱cat
    • Northern Puebla Nahuatl: acatl
    • Tetelcingo Nahuatl: öcatl
    • ⇒ Mecayapan Nahuatl: a̱ca
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Proto-Cupan:

*pa~pakaN (reduplicated)

  • Pimic:
    • O'odham: vapk
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: vaapákai
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: baapak

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1778. *pakaN ‘reed, phragmites’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 291
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*paka ‘reed’”, 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
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