Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pahi

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

Numeral

*pahi

1. three

Descendants

• Cahita:
  • Mayo: baji
• Proto-Nahuan:
  • Classical Nahuatl: ēyi
  • Pipil: yēy
• Northern Uto-Aztecan:
  • Cahuilla: pah
  • Tübatulabal: pa·i

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 69: “510 three *pahi.”
• 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 137: “(1) *pahi three”