Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/mala

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

*mala

1. daughter (clarification of this definition is needed)

Descendants

• Cahita:

• Mayo: maala (“daughter (of a man)”)

• Northern Uto-Aztecan:

• Hopi: maana (“girl; daughter”)

• Pimic:

• O'odham: maḍ (“child”, term used by the mother)
• Tepehuan:

• Northern Tepehuan: márai (“child”)
• Southeastern Tepehuan: mar (“child”)

• Tarahumaran:

• Central Tarahumara: mará (“daughter (of a man)”)

References

• Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 25: “86 child *mal, *ma”
• 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: “(84) *mala child—with female reference, i.e., child of woman, man’s daughter, girl”