Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

white pelican

Semantic Field
flora-fauna
Part of Speech
Meaning Spanish
Meaning Portuguese

Languages

Language Linnean Name Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Etymology Notes Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Range of Term Word Structure Word Structure Notes Classifier Classifier Notes Hypernym Source Association with Social Categories Ritual/Mythologically Significant Ritual Notes Food Source Food Notes Medicinal Medicinal Notes How Collected Who Collects How Prepared Psychotropic Psychotropic Notes Traded Trade Notes Distribution Habitat Dangerous Ethnobiology Notes Species Notes General Notes
Bankalachi Toloim Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone Pelicanus erythrorhynchos pah' maw'-guts/mo'-guts (water sack) White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos inheritance same phrase Merriam 61:77 0 2 0 0 0 no
Cahuilla Pelicanus erythrorhynchos sovalivil ˈsuvalivel (?) Pelican unique broader (both White and Brown Pelican, apparently, although uncertain) other complex suvalive-l pelican-non.possessed.noun (may be derivation in root) -ʔaʃ "pet" possessive classifier; Seiler & Hioki 1979 give only possessed state wikikmal Hooper 1920:376 no info 0 2 no info no info no info no info 0 0 North America breed inland (perhaps Lake Cahuilla) and are on coasts in winter (White Pelicans) no
Central Sierra Miwok Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Chemehuevi Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ɂá·ka pelican unique probably a loan same underived Harrington Chemehuevi Noun List 0 2 0 0 0 no
Chumash Barbareno Pelicanus erythrorhynchos hew' (Klar xew') California Brown Pelican inheritance *sew Proto-Chumash Klar 1977:103 WW %hew underived Beeler 1978:175 0 2 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ineseno Pelicanus erythrorhynchos hew pelican (may be brown) inheritance *sew Proto-Chumash Klar 1977:103 WW %hew underived Klar 1977:103 0 2 0 0 0 no
Chumash Obispeno Pelicanus erythrorhynchos sewene pelican (may be brown) inheritance *sew Proto-Chumash underived Klar 1977:103 0 2 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ventureno Pelicanus erythrorhynchos hew; Pinart 3 has pelepesh pelican (may be brown) inheritance *sew Proto-Chumash Klar 1977:103 WW %hew underived Klar 1977;103 0 2 0 0 0 no
Cocopa Pelicanus erythrorhynchos knyɂuy a gray and white bird, possibly a pelican unique Note M. iiya kwinyiihuly same underived no analysis in Crawford Crawford 1989 0 2 0 0 0 no
Comanche Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Cupeño Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Esselen Pelicanus erythrorhynchos yeyexim pelican loan Costanoan compares Scr, R yeye-n/xem reduplicated Shaul 1988:699 0 2 0 0 0 no
Gabrielino Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ah'ng-ŭ-root-saht' ˈʔa:ŋarot şa:t ? White pelican unique *ʔaŋa- , *saya(C) Uto-Aztecan, Northern Uto-Aztecan S220, S217 respectively (Stubbs 2009:69). But note that *ʔaŋa- is also a good UA word for “wing” (although not hitherto attested in Takic; it is in Tubatulabal as per Merriam notes). So this is probably “wing-big” . Probably a nonce formation but on UA same phrase ˈʔa:ŋa-ro-t şa:-t ?-big-nominalizer water.bird-npn; might be: ˈʔana:ŋe xarot şa:t “still would.be water.bird”??? Or could 7a:nga be the UA “wing” word??? -ʔaʧ “pet” possessive classifier for animals şa:t “water bird” http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 425 no info 0 2 all birds eaten (McC 116) no info hunted men roasted 0 0 North America breed inland and are on coasts in winter (White Pelicans) no
Iipay 'Aa Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Kawaiisu Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ee'ara Large bird, perhaps a crane, that comes from the ocean unique no info underived Zigmond et al. 188 0 2 0 0 0 no
Kiliwa Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ?+qhayu Pelican (probably American White Pelican, Pelianus erythrorhynchos) unique same other complex ɂ- “dummy nominal prefix”; qhayu only in this form Mixco 1985 0 2 0 0 0 no
Kitanemuk Pelicanus erythrorhynchos gnă-hŭ-wut pang-aht-sah ˈŋ/ɲohowɨt (?) paŋaʦaʔ White pelican unique could the first element be somehow related to the Yuman “goose” word, *nakɨ same phrase ˈŋoho-wɨ-t paŋaʦaʔ neck-augmentative-npn duck “big-necked water.bird”; probably a nonce form -ʔacit "pet" possessive classifier for animals paŋacaʔ http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n1/mode/2up, p. 13 no info 0 Neighboring Yokuts had Brown Pelican in ceremonies, but I don't know anything about White 2 no info no info no info no info 0 0 North America breed inland and are on coasts in winter (White Pelicans) no
Lake Miwok Pelicanus erythrorhynchos k'áwk'aw pelican (Merriam has hel'-wah “white pelican” 57:523) unique seems unlikely to be %hew reduplicated Callaghan 1965 0 2 0 0 0 no
Luiseño Pelicanus erythrorhynchos atáal Ɂaʹta:l pelican, extremely archaic to Mrs. Hyde unique broader (“pelican”, presumably White and Brown) other complex Ɂaʹta:-l pelican-non.possessed.noun -ʔaʃ "pet" possessive classifier; NPN form of noun is ʔaʃla 7ehéngmal Elliott 1999 136 no info 0 2 no info no info no info no info 0 0 North America On coasts in winter no
Maidu Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ā-ho'-mim White pelican unique Note Chumashan hew but proto-form is *sew, so probably not source WW %hew other complex what is -im? Nothing in Shipley 1961! Merriam 57:41 0 2 0 0 0 no
Mojave Pelicanus erythrorhynchos iiya kwinyiihuly pelican (Merriam confirms as White pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) inheritance C. knyɂuy same phrase iiya “mouth”; second element only in this expression Munro et al.1992 0 2 0 0 0 no
Mutsun Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Nisenan Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Northern Paiute Pelicanus erythrorhynchos paanosa pelican (M: White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) unique may have pa- 'water'? same underived Merriam 61:143 0 2 0 0 0 no
Northern Sierra Miwok Pelicanus erythrorhynchos I'-am -mah-loo Brown pelican unique phrase looks like phrase, but untranslatable Merriam 57:397 0 2 0 0 0 no
Plains Miwok Pelicanus erythrorhynchos 7u:kun pelican unique underived Callaghan 1984 0 2 0 0 0 no
Salinan A Pelicanus erythrorhynchos tē:/u te:w (Turner) pelican (may be brown pelican; Merriam) ta'-wah 55:377 loan Chumash Central Chemash hew (Turner 1983:226; t in salinan is a prefix) WW %hew other complex t- (articular prefix) on vowel-initial stem, probably; Turner 1987 says should be /T/ Mason 1918:125 0 2 0 0 0 no
Salinan M Pelicanus erythrorhynchos tewé pelican (Merriam has as Brown Pelican) loan Chumash Central Chumash *hew; t- in Salinan is a prefix WW %hew other complex t- is articular prefix on Chumash loan (should be /T/ Mason 1918:125 0 2 0 0 0 no
Seri (Comcaac) Pelicanus erythrorhynchos tosníxp white pelican unique same phrase tosni “brown pelican”-xp < cooxp “that which is white” yields “white pelican” Comcaac Dictionary 575 0 2 0 0 0 no
Serrano Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Southern Paiute Pelicanus erythrorhynchos pă-goo-moo'-e-nav White pelican (Pelicanus erythrorhynchos) unique same phrase fish-?-pi ABS Merriam's Ki-vav-vit 61:363 0 2 0 0 0 no
Southern Sierra Miwok Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Southern Ute Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Tübatulabal Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Tümpisa Shoshone Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Wappo Pelicanus erythrorhynchos huts-poo'-e brown Pelican (Pelecanus californicus) unique phrase elements unknown Merriam 52:575 0 2 0 0 0 no
Washo Pelicanus erythrorhynchos c'ɨXkc'ɨkhu In WPD, X is a little square. I believe this is stress over barred i, gone wrong somehow White pelican (X is for the little square in the WPD entry) unique reduplicated Merriam 55:307; WPD 0 2 0 0 0 no
Western Mono Pelicanus erythrorhynchos hoi-hoi'-mus Pelican (Brown and White) loan Yokuts Yawdanchi hòhuimuc; note Barbareno Chumash hew' “California Brown Pelican” broader (all pelicans, apparently) underived reduplication, but may be borrowed that way Merriam 59:77 totem of Eagle moiety (Gifford p. 37) 0 Brown Pelican source of dance costumes for Yokuts 2 no no info no info 0 0 speculating -- must have gotten skins from Chumash, Salinan, or BV Lake folks no
Wintu Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Yavapai Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Palewyami Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yawdanchi Pelicanus erythrorhynchos hòhuimuc pelican unique directionality of loan hre is unclear: W. Mono hoi-hoi'-mus “pelican” and note Barbareno Chumash hew' “brown pelican” WW %hew same other complex obviously a complex form but no analysis possible with existing materials Kroeber 1961:212 (233) 0 2 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yowlumne Pelicanus erythrorhynchos koi-yet White pelican unique same underived Merriam 58:557 0 2 0 0 0 Tachi hohima Gayton I:42
Yuki Pelicanus erythrorhynchos missing missing missing 0 2 0 0 0 no
Yuma Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ahCH-hah' White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) loan Chemehuevi or Paiute direction unknown; same word in Chemehuevi, western S. Paiute unknown Merriam 61:459 0 2 0 0 0 no