Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/ïca

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

Verb

*ïca

1. (transitive) plant

Descendants

• Cahita:

• Mayo: eecha

• Corachol:

• Huichol: ꞌesárica

• Northern Uto-Aztecan:

• Hopi: uuya

• Pimic:

• O'odham: ʼeṣ
• Tepehuan:

• Northern Tepehuan: ɨ́sai
• Southeastern Tepehuan: ɨs

• Tarahumaran:

• Central Tarahumara: ichá

References

• 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, pages 199–209: “*ïca ‘to plant’”
• Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 50: “323 plant (vb.) *ʔe, *ʔei.; 324 plant (vb.)”