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Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/ta
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Noun
*ta
- sun
- day
Descendants
- *ta (unmarked)
- Cahita:
- Mayo: taaꞌa (“sun”)
- Yaqui: taáʼa (“sun”)
- Cahita:
- *ta-ta (absolutive)
- Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Tübatulabal: ta·l (“day; sun”)
- Northern Uto-Aztecan:
- Unsorted formations:
- Central Tarahumara: rahué (“day”)
- Classical Nahuatl: ilhuitl (“day”)
- Hopi: taala (“light; day”)
- Hopi: taavi (“sunlight”)
- Hopi: taawa (“sun; day”)
- Northern Tepehuan: tásai (“sun”)
- O'odham: taṣ (“sun; day”)
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: “*ta ‘sun’”
- Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 59: “423a sun *ta”