< Reconstruction:Proto-Mixtec
Reconstruction:Proto-Mixtec/kʷàʔá
Proto-Mixtec
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
*kʷàʔá
- opposite-sex sibling
Coordinate terms
- *kùʔwì (“sister of a female”)
- *yénì (“brother of a male”)
Descendants
- Alcozauca Mixtec: ku̱ꞌva
- Chayuco Mixtec: cuhva
- Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec: kuꞌva
- San Juan Colorado Mixtec: cuhva
- San Miguel el Grande Mixtec: cuāha
- Tezoatlán Mixtec: ki̱ꞌo
- Yosondúa Mixtec: kuaꞌa
References
- Dürr, Michael (1987), “A preliminary reconstruction of the Proto-Mixtec tonal system”, in Indiana, volume 11, DOI:, pages 19–61: “52) *kʷàʔá / "cross-sex sibling"”