Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/wip

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

*wip (Stubbs 2011, Manaster Ramer 1993)

  1. grease, fat

Descendants

*wip (unmarked)

  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Cahuilla: will
    • Hopi: wihu
    • Proto-Numic: *wih-
    • Tübatulabal: wipt

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “845. *yuhu ‘grease’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 169
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*wip ‘grease’”, 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