Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/katïC

This Proto-Uto-Aztecan entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Noun

*katïC

1. sit (singular subject)
2. reside, live somewhere

Usage notes

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

Descendants

• Cahita:
  • Mayo: cátte-c (“be sitting”)
• Proto-Nahuan:
  • Classical Nahuatl: cah (“be”)
• Northern Uto-Aztecan:
  • Hopi: qatu (“be sitting; reside”, plural yeese)
• Pimic:
  • O'odham: ka꞉c (“be lying down; live somewhere”, plural ve꞉c (first meaning), ceveḍ (second meaning))
  • Tepehuan:
    • Northern Tepehuan: kaátɨ (“be lying down”, plural vɨɨ́tɨ)
    • Southeastern Tepehuan: kaat (“be lying down (inanimate)”, plural bɨɨt)

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: “*katïC ‘to sit’”
• 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: “381a sit down (sg.) *kate.; 381b *ka.”
• 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 139: “(42) *kaₛtɨC to sit”