Reconstruction:Proto-Uto-Aztecan/pipa

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

*pipa

1. tobacco

Descendants

• Cahita:
  • Mayo: biiba
  • Yaqui: biíba
• Corachol:
  • Huichol: yá
• Proto-Nahuan:
  • Classical Nahuatl: iyetl
• Northern Uto-Aztecan:
  • Cahuilla: pivat
  • Hopi: piiva
• Pimic:
  • Tepehuan:
    • Southeastern Tepehuan: bib

References

• 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: “(12) *piₛpa tobacco”