Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/kuna

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

*kuna

1. husband

Descendants

• Cahita:

• Mayo: cuuna

• Corachol:

• Huichol: cḯna

• Northern Uto-Aztecan:

• Hopi: koongya

• Pimic:

• O'odham: kun
• Tepehuan:

• Northern Tepehuan: kúna (“have a husband”)
• Southeastern Tepehuan: kun

• Tarahumaran:

• Central Tarahumara: cuná

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, 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”