Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/sïppa

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

*sïppa (Stubbs 2011)

  1. ice

Alternative reconstructions

  • *sïp (Manaster Ramer 1993)

Descendants

*sïppa (unmarked)

  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Proto-Numic: *-sï

*sïppa-ta (absolutive)

  • Southern Uto-Aztecan:
  • Proto-Nahuan: *sə-tl
    • Classical Nahuatl: cetl

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “508c. *sappa / *sïppa ‘freeze, ice’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 125
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*sïp ‘ice’”, 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 201 of 199–209
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