initiate girl

Semantic Field
culture-mythology
Part of Speech
Meaning Spanish
Meaning Portuguese

Languages

Language Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Etymology Notes Word Structure Word Structure Notes General Notes Source
Cahuilla 7ew-lu-ni to do puberty rites for, to initiate girls unknown Cahuilla, Cupeno only -- this is blood-do-caus, all good UA material, but unique formation derived blood-inchoative-cause Seiler & Hioki 1979
Cupeño ewlu'-ni initiate girl unknown Cupeno and Cahuilla only, means 'cause to bleed' derived Hill & Nolasquez 1973
Luiseño wiqeni- hold girls' puberty ceremony (I've backformed from wiqenish) unique simplex root Elliott 1999
Gabrielino missing missing
Serrano kwa-hahn' puberty dance (literally, 'to cook' JHH) semantic shift *kwasi Uto-Aztecan simplex root, literally 'to cook' Merriam 48:191
Kitanemuk nihnic fiesta for girl at end of 4 months diet, < nihnea 'be accustomed' inheritance *nich- Takic grow of women; Hill/Miller no-04, -11 other complex Anderton 1988
Tübatulabal missing missing
Bankalachi Toloim missing missing
Kawaiisu missing missing
Chemehuevi missing missing
Southern Paiute missing missing
Southern Ute missing missing
Tümpisa Shoshone missing missing
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone missing missing
Comanche missing missing
Western Mono yah-man'-nah ho'-nah, tŭ-man'-nah ho'-nah puberty dance unique phrase Merriam 45:319
Northern Paiute mooe peggwaha first roasting unique phrase Yerington 1987
Southern Sierra Miwok missing missing
Central Sierra Miwok missing missing
Northern Sierra Miwok missing missing
Plains Miwok missing missing
Lake Miwok missing missing
Maidu jy/pym sòlí girls' puberty ceremony unique also mâk, the elegant expression phrase jy/py 'have first menstrual period' Shipley 1963
Nisenan missing missing
Yokuts Yawelmani missing missing
Yokuts Yawdanchi missing missing
Yokuts Palewyami missing missing
Washo t'é7wé7we7 girl's puberty dance unknown note Maidu t'e- 'action with foot' derived t- nmlzr, -ewe 'resultative Washo Project Dictionary
Wintu missing missing
Yuki hamnam wok puberty ceremony for girls (lit. lie dance) inheritance *hënëmwok Proto-North Yukian phrase Schlichter 1985
Wappo missing missing
Mutsun missing missing
Esselen missing missing
Salinan A pun-nă-tah puberty dance unknown simplex Merriam 38:409
Salinan M missing missing
Chumash Obispeno missing missing
Chumash Ineseno missing missing
Chumash Barbareno missing missing
Chumash Ventureno missing missing
Iipay 'Aa missing missing
Cocopa missing missing
Mojave missing missing
Yavapai missing missing
Kiliwa missing missing
Seri (Comcaac) missing missing