Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/tapputi

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

*tapputi (Stubbs 2011)

  1. flea

Usage notes

Only found in Southern Uto-Aztecan.

Alternative reconstructions

  • *tepu, *tepuci (Miller 1967)

Descendants

*tapputi (unmarked)

  • Corachol:
    • Cora: tepʌ́
    • Huichol: tepḯ
  • ⇒ Classical Nahuatl: tepitzin (“small thing”)
  • ⇒ Classical Nahuatl: tepitōn (“small thing”)

*tï~tïpuC-mï (reduplicated plural)

*tapputi-ci (diminutive)

  • Huarijio: tehpucí
  • Mayo: tépput
  • Pimic:
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: tapɨ́ɨ́xi
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: tapɨɨx
    • O'odham: ce꞉pṣ
  • Tarahumaran:

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “914. *tapputi / *tïpputi / *tïCpu-ti ‘flea’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 179
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “175 flea *tepu, *tepuci.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 35
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