Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/kuna

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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

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Noun

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*kuna

  1. husband

Descendants

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  • Cahita:
  • Mayo: cuuna
  • Corachol:
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
  • Pimic:
  • O'odham: kun
  • Tepehuan:
  • Northern Tepehuan: kúna (have a husband)
  • Southeastern Tepehuan: kun
  • Tarahumaran:
  • Central Tarahumara: cuná

References

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  • Manaster Ramer, Alexis (1993) “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 204:*kuna ‘husband’
  • Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 68:504a husband *kuna. 504b *kuma. 504c to marry a man.
  • Voegelin, C. F., Voegelin, F. M., Hale, Kenneth L. (1962) Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan: I (Phonology) (Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics; Memoir 17), Baltimore: Waverly Press, Inc., page 141:(97) *kuŋa husband