Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/tïpuC

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

Etymology

Only found in Southern Uto-Aztecan.

Noun

*tïpuC

1. flea

Descendants

*tïpuC (unmarked)

• Corachol:

• Cora: tepʌ́
• Huichol: tepḯ

• ⇒ Classical Nahuatl: tepitzin (“small thing”)
• ⇒ Classical Nahuatl: tepitōn (“small thing”)

*tï~tïpuC-mï (reduplicated plural)

• Proto-Nahuan:

• Classical Nahuatl: tecpin

*tïpuC-ci (diminutive)

• Huarijio: tehpucí
• Mayo: tépput
• Pimic:

• Tepehuan:

• Northern Tepehuan: tapɨ́ɨ́xi
• Southeastern Tepehuan: tapɨɨx

• O'odham: ce꞉pṣ

• Tarahumara:

• Central Tarahumara: ripuchí

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 35: “175 flea *tepu, *tepuci.”