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white pelican

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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

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 Notes	Food Source	Food Notes	Medicinal	How Collected	Who Collects	How Prepared	Trade Notes	Distribution	Habitat	Dangerous
Bankalachi Toloim	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		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			2		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		2		no info	no info	no info	no info		North America	breed inland (perhaps Lake Cahuilla) and are on coasts in winter (White Pelicans)	no
Central Sierra Miwok	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Chemehuevi	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	ɂá·ka		pelican	unique				probably a loan			same	underived					Harrington Chemehuevi Noun List			2		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			2		0							no
Chumash Ineseno	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	hew		pelican (may be brown)	inheritance	*sew	Proto-Chumash		Klar 1977:103	WW	%hew		underived					Klar 1977:103			2		0							no
Chumash Obispeno	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	sewene		pelican (may be brown)	inheritance	*sew	Proto-Chumash						underived					Klar 1977:103			2		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			2		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			2		0							no
Comanche	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Cupeño	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Esselen	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	yeyexim		pelican	loan			Costanoan	compares Scr, R yeye-n/xem				reduplicated					Shaul 1988:699			2		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		2	all birds eaten (McC 116)	no info	hunted	men	roasted		North America	breed inland and are on coasts in winter (White Pelicans)	no
Iipay 'Aa	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		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			2		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			2		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	Neighboring Yokuts had Brown Pelican in ceremonies, but I don't know anything about White	2		no info	no info	no info	no info		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			2		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		2		no info	no info	no info	no info		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			2		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			2		0							no
Mutsun	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Nisenan	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Northern Paiute	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	paanosa		pelican (M: White pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)	unique				may have pa- 'water'?			same	underived					Merriam 61:143			2		0							no
Northern Sierra Miwok	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	I'-am -mah-loo		Brown pelican	unique								phrase	looks like phrase, but untranslatable				Merriam 57:397			2		0							no
Plains Miwok	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	7u:kun		pelican	unique								underived					Callaghan 1984			2		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			2		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			2		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			2		0							no
Serrano	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		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			2		0							no
Southern Sierra Miwok	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Southern Ute	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Tübatulabal	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Tümpisa Shoshone	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Wappo	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	huts-poo'-e		brown Pelican (Pelecanus californicus)	unique								phrase	elements unknown				Merriam 52:575			2		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			2		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)	Brown Pelican source of dance costumes for Yokuts	2		no	no info	no info		speculating -- must have gotten skins from Chumash, Salinan, or BV Lake folks			no
Wintu	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Yavapai	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		0							no
Yokuts Palewyami	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		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)			2		0							no
Yokuts Yowlumne	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	koi-yet		White pelican	unique							same	underived					Merriam 58:557			2		0							Tachi hohima Gayton I:42
Yuki	Pelicanus erythrorhynchos	missing			missing								missing								2		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			2		0							no


Bankalachi Toloim
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone
Cahuilla
Central Sierra Miwok
Chemehuevi
Chumash Barbareno
Chumash Ineseno
Chumash Obispeno
Chumash Ventureno
Cocopa
Comanche
Cupeño
Esselen
Gabrielino
Iipay 'Aa
Kawaiisu
Kiliwa
Kitanemuk
Lake Miwok
Luiseño
Maidu
Mojave
Mutsun
Nisenan
Northern Paiute
Northern Sierra Miwok
Plains Miwok
Salinan A
Salinan M
Seri (Comcaac)
Serrano
Southern Paiute
Southern Sierra Miwok
Southern Ute
Tübatulabal
Tümpisa Shoshone
Wappo
Washo
Western Mono
Wintu
Yavapai
Yokuts Palewyami
Yokuts Yawdanchi
Yokuts Yowlumne
Yuki
Yuma

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