Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/ta

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

*ta

1. sun
2. day

Descendants

• *ta (unmarked)
  • Cahita:
    • Mayo: taaꞌa (“sun”)
    • Yaqui: taáʼa (“sun”)
• *ta-ta (absolutive)
  • Northern Uto-Aztecan:
    • Tübatulabal: ta·l (“day; sun”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Central Tarahumara: rahué (“day”)
  • Classical Nahuatl: ilhuitl (“day”)
  • Hopi: taala (“light; day”)
  • Hopi: taavi (“sunlight”)
  • Hopi: taawa (“sun; day”)
  • Northern Tepehuan: tásai (“sun”)
  • O'odham: taṣ (“sun; day”)

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: “*ta ‘sun’”
• Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 59: “423a sun *ta”