Reconstruction:Proto-Nahuan/aamatl

This Proto-Nahuan entry contains reconstructed words 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-Nahuan

Noun

*aamatl

a kind of fig tree (clarification of this definition is needed)
paper

Descendants

Classical Nahuatl: āmatl (“paper”)
Highland Puebla Nahuatl: a̱mat (“paper”)
Mecayapan Nahuatl: a̱maꞌ (“fig sp.; paper”)
Northern Puebla Nahuatl: amatl (“paper”)
Pipil: āmat (“fig sp.; paper; book”)
Tetelcingo Nahuatl: ömatl (“paper”)

References

Campbell, Lyle; Langacker, Ronald W. (October 1978), “Proto-Aztecan Vowels: Part III”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 44, issue 4, pages 262–279: “(124) paper (amate, a species of fig tree) *aama-”