Reconstruction:Proto-Mixtec/lele

This Proto-Mixtec 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-Mixtec

Alternative forms

• *lese
• *sese

Etymology

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Noun

*lele

1. urine

Descendants

*lele

• ⇒ Tezoatlán Mixtec: találá (“urinate”)

*lese

• San Juan Colorado Mixtec: làxà

*sese

• Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: xexe (“bladder”)
• ⇒ Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: ndexexe
• ⇒ San Miguel el Grande Mixtec: tɨxēxé
• Yosondúa Mixtec: tixexe

References

• Josserand, Judy Kathryn (1983) Mixtec Dialect History, Tulane University: “150) orina / urine / *lele”