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blue grouse

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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	Distribution	Habitat	Dangerous
Bankalachi Toloim	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone	Dendrogapus?	kah'-hah (RV, RM)		Blue grouse (Dendragapus)	inheritance	*kaka “quail, grouse”	Numic		Stubbs 1702a (2008:241), probably shouldn't be combined with quail			same	underived					Merriam 61:73			1		0						no
Cahuilla	Dendrogapus?	missing in all sources			missing								missing								1		0				Map at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sooty_Grouse/id suggests this species does not come as far south as Cahuilla. I don't know why it's in Merriam's list for California, mainly a Rocky Mountain bird	scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted)	no
Central Sierra Miwok	Dendrogapus?	múč:ama:šy-		grouse	inheritance		Sierra Miwokan only		In all Mis				other complex	-y nominalizer				Freeland & Broadbent 1960			1		0						no
Chemehuevi	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Chumash Barbareno	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Chumash Ineseno	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Chumash Obispeno	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Chumash Ventureno	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Cocopa	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Comanche	Dendrogapus?	kokaa?		guinea fowl	semantic shift	*kaka “quail, grouse”	Numic		Stubbs 1702a (2008:241, probably shouldn't be combined with quail			broader (includes domestic guinea fowl -- but NOT prairie chicken)	underived					Robinson & Armagost 1990:163			1		0						no
Cupeño	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Esselen	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Gabrielino	Dendrogapus?	pohyo:t	pohˈjo:t	churrea (California grouse)	unique				Note Lu. song word poyúlvumal “type of small bird” (linked to cactus wren in couplet), but this is a large bird			same	other complex	pohˈjo:-t grouse-npn	ʔaʧ “pet”	possessive classifier for animals	chi:ya	Harrington 604	no info		1	all birds eaten (McC 116)	no info	hunted	men	roasted	Map at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sooty_Grouse/id suggests this species does not come as far south as Gabrielino. I don't know why it's in Merriam's list for California, mainly a Rocky Mountain bird	scrublands, woodlands	no
Iipay 'Aa	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Kawaiisu	Dendrogapus?	yɨhniɁ-bi		grouse	unique							same	other complex	yɨhniɁ-bi grouse-ABS				Zigmond et al.			1		0						no
Kiliwa	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Kitanemuk	Dendrogapus?	hoo'-e-hoo'-e 60-9	ˈhuʔihuʔi ?	Blue grouse	inheritance	*hu(ʔ)i-	Northern Uto-Aztecan		May be a regionalism: Tumpisa Shoshone huiccu “sage grouse”; this looks like the “small bird” word ??			same	reduplicated		-ʔacit "pet"	possessive classifier for animals		http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n1/mode/2up, p. 9	no info		1	no decent info but everybody ate songbirds and eggs	no info	hunted	men	roasted, boiled, eggs eaten	Western North America. I don't know why it's in Merriam's list for California, mainly a Rocky Mountain bird	scrublands, woodlands	no
Lake Miwok	Dendrogapus?	lúmen cokóoko		blue grouse (same as “mountain quail” in Callaghan)	unique								phrase	lume- “yellow pine”				Merriam 57:519			1		0						no
Luiseño	Dendrogapus?	chachaláaka	tʃatʃaʹlaka	bird species which is slightly larger than a quail	loan			Spanish	Spanish chachalaca			same	underived	sound imitative in Spanish (may come from a Mesoamerican language)	-ʔaʃ "pet"	possessive classifier; NPN form of noun is ʔaʃla	7ehéngmal	Elliott 1999:236	no info		1	no info but since all sources indicate quail eaten, I assume grouse was too	no info	hunted	men	boiled, roasted, eggs eaten	California Coast ranges	Edges of conifer and mixed forest	no
Maidu	Dendrogapus?	hy/kwo		grouse	inheritance	*hyk'	Maiduan		Ultan 1964:363 #87				underived					Shipley 1963			1		0						no
Mojave	Dendrogapus?	talypo		roadrunner	inheritance		Proto-Yuman		Langdon 1976:873 Metath; Yuma talypo/ Halpern 1:31			same	underived					Munro et al.1992			1		0						no
Mutsun	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Nisenan	Dendrogapus?	hyk'		grouse (CHM confirms)	inheritance	*hyk'	Maiduan		Ultan 1964:363 #87				underived					Uldall & Shipley 1966			1		0						no
Northern Paiute	Dendrogapus?	kah'-hih; kah'-hoo-ŭ	kahɨ	Blue grouse (Dendragapus)	inheritance	*kaka 'quail, grouse'	Northern Uto-Aztecan		I'm not sure about this -- Numic is good, but may not go with Takic (Stubbs 1702a (2008:241); note TS kahu and wonder why different from “quail”			same	underived					Merriam 61:139			1		0						no
Northern Sierra Miwok	Dendrogapus?	muc:uma:s-y-		blue grouse	inheritance		Sierra Miwokan only		In all Mis				other complex	-y nominalizer				Callaghan 1987			1		0						no
Plains Miwok	Dendrogapus?	kuj:ak:a		grouse	inheritance		Eastern Miwokan		Same word as “mountain quail” in all Mis, Mip				underived					Callaghan 1984			1		0						no
Salinan A	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Salinan M	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Seri (Comcaac)	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Serrano	Dendrogapus?	kakawt		grouse	semantic shift	*kacaC-wɨ	Uto-Aztecan		S1702a (Stubbs 2008:241); usually “mountain quail”, perhaps a consultant error	WW	%kaka		other complex	-w-t Augmentative-NPN				KCHill ms 2001:22			1		0						no
Southern Paiute	Dendrogapus?	qaampɨtsI		Ruffled grouse	unique							same	other complex	has -pɨtsI ABS				Sapir 1930:627			1		0						no
Southern Sierra Miwok	Dendrogapus?	muc:amaHh-		Sierra grouse	inheritance		Sierra Miwokan only		In all Mis				underived	must be complex etymologically				Broadbent 1964:			1		0						no
Southern Ute	Dendrogapus?	?agóo-qwáa-pų-cI		grouse, “timberline hen”	unique							same	phrase	pine-go.to-NOM-ABS				Givon 1979			1		0						no
Tübatulabal	Dendrogapus?	pāwusshakk	pa:wuˈʧak	sage grouse, sage hen, Centrocercus urophasianus	unique							same	underived	pa:wuˈʧak perhaps pa:- “big”? But not synchronically productive				Hill 2010:67		a story character	1		0				Western North America. I don't know why it's in Merriam's list for California, mainly a Rocky Mountain bird	scrublands, woodlands	no
Tümpisa Shoshone	Dendrogapus?	kahu		grouse (sp)	inheritance	*kaka “quail, grouse”	Numic		m not sure about this -- Numic is good, but may not go with Takic (Stubbs 1702a (2008:241). Note Northfork qahɨ and wonder why different from “quail”			same	underived					Dayley 1989:41			1		0						no
Wappo	Dendrogapus?	ho-lā'-lik		Blue grouse	unique								underived					Merriam 52:569			1		0						no
Washo	Dendrogapus?	c'úpum		Blue grouse, its booming sound	unique								underived					Merriam 55:303; Jacobsen 1964:87			1		0						no
Western Mono	Dendrogapus?	qahɨ		grouse	inheritance	*kaka “quail, grouse”	Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan (Numic “grouse”, Takic “quail”)		I'm not sure about this -- Numic is good, but may not go with Takic (Stubbs 1702a (2008:241); note TS kahu and wonder why different from “quail”			same	underived	ultimately onomatopoeic but sound change has obscured			tsiipa “bird”	Bethel et al.:161	no info		1		no info	hunted	men	no info			no
Wintu	Dendrogapus?	nirit		blue grouse (CHM confirms 56:7)	unique								other complex	nir ...				Schlichter 1981			1		0						no
Yavapai	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Yokuts Palewyami	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		0						no
Yokuts Yawdanchi	Dendrogapus?	wup'-tah		blue grouse	unique				they call it kah'-hoot at Patishwa (that's a UA loan JHH)			same	underived					Merriam 58:363			1		0						no
Yokuts Yowlumne	Dendrogapus?	lum-tin'-nin hŭm'-lŭl		Blue grouse “mountaineer quail”	unique				Includes Yokutsan *humn-ul “Valley Quail”			same	phrase	lomit “mountain”				Merriam 58:553			1		0						no
Yuki	Dendrogapus?	e-too'-kum MWO		blue grouse	inheritance	*7iTukam	Yukian		Schlichter 1985				other complex	-am derives nouns (Schlichter diss)				Sawyer & Schlichter 1984			1		0						no
Yuma	Dendrogapus?	missing			missing								missing								1		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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