Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/wokoN

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

*wokoN (Stubbs 2011)

  1. pine tree

Alternative reconstructions

  • *wokon (Manaster Ramer 1993)
  • *woko, *hoko (Miller 1967)
  • *woₛko (Voegelin 1962)

Descendants

*wokoN (unmarked)

  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: guocco
    • Yaqui: óko
  • Corachol:
    • Cora: jucú
    • Huichol: hucú
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Hopi: löqö
    • Proto-Numic: *woŋko(N)
      • Central Numic:
        • Comanche: wokobi
        • Shoshone: wonko-pin
      • Western Numic:
        • Northern Paiute: wogopi
  • Tarahumaran:
    • Central Tarahumara: okó
  • → Pimic:
    • O'odham: huk
    • Tepehuan:
      • Northern Tepehuan: úkui
      • Southeastern Tepehuan: juk

*wokoN-ta (absolutive)

References

  • Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1626a. *wokoN ‘pine’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 272
  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993), “*wokon ‘pine’”, 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 203 of 199–209
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967), “320a pine tree *woko. 320b *hoko.”, in Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 50
  • Voegelin, C. F.; Voegelin, F. M.; Hale, Kenneth L. (1962), “(142) *woₛko pine”, in Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 143