Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pakiC

This Proto-Uto-Aztecan 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-Uto-Aztecan

Verb

*pakiC

enter (singular subject)

Usage notes

The plural form of this verb is suppletive in many languages.

Descendants

Cahita:
- Mayo: quibaque (plural quiimu)
Nahuan: [Term?]
- Classical Nahuatl: aqui
Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Hopi: paki (plural yungya)
Pimic:
- Tepehuan:
  - Northern Tepehuan: vaákɨi
  - Southeastern Tepehuan: bakiaꞌ
Tarahumaran:
- Central Tarahumara: bakí (plural moꞌwí)

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: “pakiC ‘to enter’”
Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 33: “159 enter *paki.”
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 137: “(2) *paₛki to enter”