Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pakay

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

Numeral

*pakay (Stubbs 2011)

  1. three

Alternative reconstructions

  • *pahi (Miller 1967, Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: baji
  • Proto-Nahuan: *eeyɨ (three)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Cahuilla: pah
    • Proto-Numic: *pahi
    • Tübatulabal: pa·i

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “2624. *pakay 'three'”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 400
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “510 three *pahi.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 69
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(1) *pahi three”, in Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 137