Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/aya
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
editNoun
edit*aya
Descendants
edit- *aya (unmarked)
- Hopi: aaya (“gourd rattle”)
- Ute: aʔaja (turtle)
- Kawaiisu: ʔaya (turtle)
- ⇒ Classical Nahuatl: āyacachtli (“rattle”)
- ⇒ Mayo: áyacame (“rattlesnake”)
- *aya-ta (absolutive)
- *aya-wït (augmentative)
- *aya-wït-ta (augmentative and absolutive)
References
edit- Miller, Wick R. (1967) Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 48), Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 51: “341 rattle *ʔay.”