Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/wokon

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

*wokon

1. pine tree

Descendants

*wokon (unmarked)

• Cahita:

• Mayo: guocco
• Yaqui: óko

• Corachol:

• Cora: jucú
• Huichol: hucú

• Northern Uto-Aztecan:

• Hopi: löqö
• Proto-Numic:

• Northern Paiute: wogopi

• Tarahumaran:

• Central Tarahumara: okó

• → Pimic:

• O'odham: huk
• Tepehuan:

• Northern Tepehuan: úkui
• Southeastern Tepehuan: juk

*wokon-ta (absolutive)

• Proto-Nahuan: *okotl
  • Classical Nahuatl: ocotl
  • Mecayapan Nahuatl: ocoꞌ
  • → Spanish: ocote
• Northern Uto-Aztecan:

• Proto-Cupan:

• Cahuilla: wexet

• Tübatulabal: wohont

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 203: “wokon ‘pine’”
• Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 50: “320a pine tree *woko. 320b *hoko.”
• 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 143: “(142) *woₛko pine”