Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pakiC

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

Verb

*pakiC (Stubbs 2011, Manaster Ramer 1993)

  1. (singular subject) to enter

Usage notes

The plural form of this verb is suppletive in many descendant languages.

Descendants

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: quibaque (plural quiimu)
  • Proto-Nahuan:
    • Classical Nahuatl: aqui
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: paki (plural yungya)
    • Proto-Numic: *paki
  • Pimic:
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: vaákɨi
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: bakiaꞌ
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: bakí (plural moꞌwí)

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1242a. *pakiC (AMR) ‘enter’; 1242b. *pakiC ‘stick, go’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 222
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “pakiC ‘to enter’”, 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 205 of 199–209
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “159 enter *paki.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 33
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(2) *paₛki to enter”, 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