< Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/hu
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Noun
*hu
- arrow, projectile
Descendants
- Cahita:
- Mayo: júꞌigua (“arrow; cartridge”) (first syllable)
- Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Hopi: hoohu (“bullet, arrow, projectile”) (first syllable)
- Pimic:
- O'odham: ʼuʼu (“arrow point; bullet; cartridge”)
- Tepehuan:
- Northern Tepehuan: úúyi (“arrow; cartridge”) (first syllable)
- Southeastern Tepehuan: uꞌuu (“arrow”)
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: “*hu ‘dart’ (later ‘arrow’)”
- Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 17: “9 arrow *hu”
- 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 140: “(78) *hu arrow”