< Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/tïni
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
Noun
*tïni
- mouth
Descendants
- Cahita:
- Mayo: teeni
- Yaqui: teéni
- Corachol:
- Huichol: téni
- Nahuan: *teentli
- Classical Nahuatl: tēntli (“lip; edge”)
- Highland Puebla Nahuatl: ite̱n (“mouth”)
- Mecayapan Nahuatl: te̱nti (“mouth; edge”)
- Pimic:
- Northern Tepehuan: tɨ́ñi
- Southeastern Tepehuan: chiñ
- Tarahumaran:
- Central Tarahumara: riní
References
- Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 47: “293 mouth *teni.”
- 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.: “(19) *tɨᵤni mouth”