Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/taʼa

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

*taʼa (Stubbs 2011)

  1. sun
  2. day

Alternative reconstructions

  • *ta (Manaster Ramer 1993)

Descendants

*taʼa (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: taaꞌa (“sun”)
    • Yaqui: taáʼa (“sun”)

*taʼa-ta (absolutive)

  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Tübatulabal: ta·l (“day; sun”)

Unsorted formations:

  • Central Tarahumara: rahué (“day”)
  • Classical Nahuatl: ilhuitl (“day”)
  • Hopi: taala (“light; day”)
  • Hopi: taavi (“sunlight”)
  • Hopi: taawa (“sun; day”)
  • Northern Tepehuan: tásai (“sun”)
  • O'odham: taṣ (“sun; day”)
  • Proto-Numic: *tape

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “2230b. *taʼa / *ta- '(day)light, sun'”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 348
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*ta ‘sun’”, 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
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “423a sun *ta”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 59
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