Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/tïʼni

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

*tïʼni (Stubbs 2011)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Alternative reconstructions

  • *teni (Miller 1967)
  • *tɨᵤni (Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

*tï’ni (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: teeni
    • Yaqui: teéni
  • Corachol:
  • Proto-Nahuan: *teen-tlɨ
    • Classical Nahuatl: tēntli (“lip; edge”)
    • Highland Puebla Nahuatl: ite̱n (“mouth”)
    • Mecayapan Nahuatl: te̱nti (“mouth; edge”)
  • Proto-Numic: *tïmpe
  • Pimic:
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: riní

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1469a. *tï’na > *tï’ni ‘mouth’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 254
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “293 mouth *teni.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 47
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(19) *tɨᵤni mouth”, in Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc.
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