California jay
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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 |
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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 |
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| Bankalachi Toloim | Aphelocoma californica? | tri'-tri | California Jay | loan | Yokuts | Yowlumne ki'-ki; tri'-tri (Merriam); Gashowu tri-tri | WW | %chaj | same | underived | obvious reduplication but in Yokuts | C. H. Merriam 72-77, 60-455 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Big Smokey Valley Shoshone | Aphelocoma californica? | ), zi'-vitch, chi'-itch (RM)tsai-pittsih | blue jay (M: Woodhouse jay (Aphelocoma) | loan into protolanguage | *ca'i | Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | a widespread arealism, but Stubbs has for PNUA (2009 (2008:68) | WW | %chaj | same | other complex | has -piccih ABS | Miller 1972:157 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cahuilla | Aphelocoma californica? | čáʔiš | ˈʧaʔiʃ | bluejay without a crest | loan into protolanguage | *cha7i- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | S209, Central Numic, Chemehuevi, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68). Note similar words in Yokutsan, Chumash ch'ay' | WW | %chaj | same | other complex | ʹʧaɂi (simplex root)-ʃ (non-possessed noun) | -7aʃ “pet” | takes possessive classifier -7aʃ (Seiler 1977:305 | wikikmal | Seiler&Hioki 1979:75 | no info | 2 | 1 | Jays cache food; owners of trees collected tree caches for human use | no info | hunted | All | roasted, stewed, eggs eaten | 0 | 0 | I have not seen jay feathers mentioned as trade items | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | ||||||
| Central Sierra Miwok | Aphelocoma californica? | Tajiš-mu- | bluejay | loan | *Tajich | Sierra Miwokan only | unknown | Callaghan 1997:58; Note Proto-General Yokuts *T'ayT'ay | WW | %chaj | derived | -mu- agentive | Freeland & Broadbent 1960 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chemehuevi | Aphelocoma californica? | ahng | ɂá·ŋA JPH | California jay (Aphelocoma) | inheritance | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 220 (2008:69); Colorado River Southern Numic; Stubbs 220 (2008:69), but also Yerington anga “Pinyon Jay”! Add to Stubbs. | same | underived | Merriam 59:527 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Barbareno | Aphelocoma californica? | ch'ay' | scrub jay, California Jay | loan into protolanguage | Central Chumash only | Yokuts | very widespread form; loan into Central Chumash at least; note NUA *cha'i Stubbs 209 | WW | %chaj | underived | Beeler 1978:174 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ineseno | Aphelocoma californica? | chi”; chi'-e | California jay | loan into protolanguage | Central Chumash only | Yokuts | loan into Central Chumash at least | WW | %chaj | underived | Merriam 55:9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Obispeno | Aphelocoma californica? | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ventureno | Aphelocoma californica? | chi'-chi' | California jay | inheritance | Central Chumash only | In Barbareno | WW | %chay | reduplicated | Merriam 55:51 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cocopa | Aphelocoma californica? | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comanche | Aphelocoma californica? | ebihuutsuu? | bluejay, bluebird | unique | this has *huttu, but is totally unlike other Shoshone, probably a calque | broader (vague as to even genus! -- Aphelocoma? Cyanocitta? Sialia? | phrase | blue-bird | Robinson & Armagost 1990:162 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cupeño | Aphelocoma californica? | cha'ish | ˈʧaʔiʃ | bluejay | loan into protolanguage | *chaʔi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | S209, Central Numic, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68) and widespread areally, probably originally a California-origin loan | WW | %chaj | same | other complex | ˈʧaʔi-ʃ blue.jay-npn | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | mukikmal | Hill & Nolasquez 1973:152 | no info | 2 | 1 | eggs surely eaten, and acorn caches used | no info | no info | no info | no info | 0 | 0 | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | |||||||
| Esselen | Aphelocoma californica? | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabrielino | Aphelocoma californica? | tsi'-e | ˈʧaʔij (?) | California jay | loan into protolanguage | *chaʔi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | Kitanemuk cayca7y “blue jay”; S209, Central Numic, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68). Note similarity of Yokut, Chumash words. | WW | %chaj | same | other complex | ˈʧaʔi-j Jay-npn | -ʔaʧ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | chi:ya | http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 421 | no info | 2 | 1 | all birds eaten (McC 116) | no info | hunted | men | roasted, mainly | 0 | 0 | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | |||||||
| Iipay 'Aa | Aphelocoma californica? | kulashaash | bluejay | unique | Note Yavapai čàsčā·sa, aash part might just be “bird” | same | underived | looks like it might contain the “bird” word etymologically | Couro & Hutcheson 1973 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kawaiisu | Aphelocoma californica? | soi'-e-kiz-ză (K); soi-e-jij-jah (P) | California jay | unique | same | other complex | soyiki-zi jay-ABS | Merriam 59:367 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kiliwa | Aphelocoma californica? | ?+suul | Mexican jay | unique | same | other complex | ɂ- “dummy nominal prefix”, suul only in this form | Mixco 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kitanemuk | Aphelocoma californica? | caycaʔy | ˈʦajʦaʔj | bird sp: bluish, no crest, harsh scream, seen in oak trees | loan | *chaʔi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Yokuts | Kitanemuk cayca7y “blue jay”; S209, Central Numic, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68). Note similarity of Yokuts, Chumash words. I think this reduplicated form is recent Yokutsan loan. | WW | %chaj | same | reduplicated | ˈʦajʦaʔ-j dup-jay-npn | -ʔacit "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | wicitat | Anderton 1988:281 | no info | 2 | 1 | no decent info but everybody ate songbirds and eggs | no info | hunted | men | roasted, boiled, eggs eaten | 0 | 0 | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | |||||||
| Lake Miwok | Aphelocoma californica? | sajíic | mountain bluejay (et) | loan | Kashaya Pomo | note sw pomo s'ayí jay (1965:120); Proto-Pomo *c'ay(:)yi; Pmiw *$ajiic, Pmis *Tajich; an areal form but in this case probably a recent loan due to high similarity and non-cognacy with Miwokan | WW | %chaj | underived | Callaghan 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luiseño | Aphelocoma californica? | wí'kas-ma-l | ʹwiɁkasmal | blue jay without crest | inheritance | *wiCtiki | Uto-Aztecan | S205, with consonant assimilation *tVk > kVk. (Stubbs 2009:67). The /s/ derivation is unclear. *kasa is a Numic “wing” word. | same | derived | ʹwiɁka-s-mal; bird-?-diminutive. | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier; NPN form of noun is ʔaʃla | 7ehéngmay | Elliott 1999:1047 | no info | 2 | 1 | must have been eaten, but never mentioned. Jays cache food; owners of trees collected tree caches for human use and even felled trees to reach acorns | no info | no info | no info | no info | 0 | 0 | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | ||||||||||
| Maidu | Aphelocoma californica? | kàjhísky | California bluejay | loan | unknown | This looks more like the “Crested Jay” k'aj word | WW | %kaj | derived | fly-X | Shipley 1963 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mojave | Aphelocoma californica? | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mutsun | Aphelocoma californica? | saiae; ah'sh-sheet | jays; California jay | loan | *saj... | Utian | unknown | Pmiw *$ajiic; but a widespread arealism; Callaghan thinks the similar Mil word is Kashaya Pomo;, but gives as PmiMu 1962:102; Perhaps Yok-Utian | WW | %chaj | underived | Mason 1916:428; Merriam 55:409 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nisenan | Aphelocoma californica? | c'ajit | bluejay | loan | unknown | areal form; Note Mis *Tajich, PW *ch'ayi(:)k “scrub jay” Shepherd 2005 | WW | %chaj | underived | Uldall & Shipley 1966 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Paiute | Aphelocoma californica? | we at'-se-m | California jay (Aphelocoma) | unique | unknown | Merriam 61:139 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Sierra Miwok | Aphelocoma californica? | TajTi- | bluejay | loan into protolanguage | *Tajich | Sierra Miwokan only | unknown | Callaghan 1997;58 | WW | %chaj | other complex | -Ti probably thematic | Callaghan 1987 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plains Miwok | Aphelocoma californica? | sajsi- | bluejay, Stellar Jay (CHM has for Aphelocoma) | loan into protolanguage | Miwokan | unknown | See Pmiw *$ajiic (which may be Patwin loan) -- an areal word: Callaghan 1997:58 | WW | %chaj | underived | Callaghan 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan A | Aphelocoma californica? | T'ay' | bluejay (Merriam confirms California Jay) | loan | unknown | areal form; Miwokan *T'ayT'ay, Yokutsan similar, etc. | WW | %chaj | underived | Mason 1918:125j; Turner 1983:227 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan M | Aphelocoma californica? | Tahi | bluejay (Merriam 55:371 confirms California Jay) | loan | unknown | areal form; Miwokan *T'ayT'ay, Yokutsan similar, etc. | WW | %chaj | underived | Mason 1918:125 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seri (Comcaac) | Aphelocoma californica? | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serrano | Aphelocoma californica? | chi'-chi | California jay | loan | *cha7i- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Yokuts | Kitanemuk cayca7y “blue jay”; S209, Central Numic, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68). Note similarity of Yokuts, Chumash words. I think this reduplicated form is recent Yokutsan loan. | WW | %chaj | reduplicated | Merriam 72-27, 60-101 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Paiute | Aphelocoma californica? | tco'iŋk | Arizona jay (long-tailed and uncrested) | unique | Southern Numic only | Note Kawaiisu čoɁiki-ži “Pinyon jay”; possibly from the cha'i word?? | same | underived | Sapir 1930:698 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Sierra Miwok | Aphelocoma californica? | tajic:u- | California bluejay | loan into protolanguage | *Tajich | Sierra Miwokan only | unknown | Callaghan 1997:58; Proto-General Yokuts *T'ayT'ay | WW | %chaj | underived | I think etymologically there's a -c:u here | Broadbent 1964: | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Ute | Aphelocoma californica? | pųų-vų-ráa-cI | bluejay | unique | same | phrase | pųų-vų-ráa-cI fur-ABS-little-ABS | Givon 1979 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tübatulabal | Aphelocoma californica? | ātsayyipisht | ʔa:ʣajiˈbiʃt | bluejay, probably Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri | loan into protolanguage | *chaʔi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | S209, Central Numic, Tubatulabal, Takic, always “blue jay” (Stubbs 2009:68). Note similar words in Yokutsan. | WW | %chaj | same | derived | ʔa:ʣaj-iˈbiʃ-t ?-individuator (ind) -npn | chikkīt | Hill 2010:12 | no info | 2 | 1 | Voegelin 1938:12 | no info | hunted | men | roasted on coals, bones ground (some consultants denied Tub. ate eggs before Whites) | 0 | 0 | throughout western North America (distributions from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | scrublands, woodlands (Habitats from Wikipedia unless otherwise noted) | no | |||||||||
| Tümpisa Shoshone | Aphelocoma californica? | kayüntsih | scrub jay | loan into protolanguage | Central Numic only | unknown | this is in Big Smokey Valley for “Pinyon Jay” | WW | %kaj | same | underived | -tsih is NOT same as -ttsi diminutive | Dayley 1989:50 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||
| Wappo | Aphelocoma californica? | c'áy | bluejay (CHM confirms 52:569) | loan | Pomo | Yukian *č'ə7əy; but Pomo c'ayi, ca”yi better; Wintun čayi(:)k, Mis Tajič, Miw *$aji:ch, Nisenan ch'ajit “bluejay” | WW | %chaj | underived | Sawyer 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washo | Aphelocoma californica? | medukc'áyc'ay | California jay; blue jay (WPD) | loan | unknown | c'áyc'ay is the areal form for this bird; cannot be of Washo origin; note Washo doesn't have usual “woodpecker” word | WW | %chaj | phrase, reduplicated | medu? | WPD | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Mono | Aphelocoma californica? | tseeGo'nO | Valley blue jay (local name) (probably the scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens) | unique | same | onomatopoeic | maybe from tsiko-na “tsiko-says” ?? | tsiipa “bird” | Bethel et al.:252 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wintu | Aphelocoma californica? | c'ayik | jaybird, bluejay, smooth-headed bluejay (CHM confirms) | loan into protolanguage | *č'ayi(:)k | Wintun | unknown | Shepherd 2005 | WW | %chaj | underived | Pitkin 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yavapai | Aphelocoma californica? | čàsčā·sa | blue jay, pinyon jay | unique | Looks a bit like the cha'i sets in Takic | unknown | Shaterian 1983 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Palewyami | Aphelocoma californica? | ɂoyičaɂ | blue jay | unique | nothing like this in Kroeber, he has all chay, Tai forms (1961:203) | same | underived | Note that really nothing is known about Palewyami; word may have derivational elements | Gamble 1991 (from Harrington) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yawdanchi | Aphelocoma californica? | Táicudètc | bluejay (Merriam confirms Aphelocoma 58:363) | loan into protolanguage | *T'ayT'ay | General Yokuts | unknown | Callaghan 1997:58; missing only in Pal; compare Mis Tajič, Miw *$aji:ch, Nisenan ch'ajit “bluejay”; Yukian *č'ə7əy; but Pomo c'ayi, ca”yi better; Wintun čayi(:)k, etc. | WW | %chaj | same | other complex | this has the T'ay element and a suffix that looks like Pal. -wilets. | Kroeber 1961:203 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yowlumne | Aphelocoma californica? | T'ayT'ay | T is retroflex t (with subdot in original) | bluejay | loan into protolanguage | *T'ayT'ay | General Yokuts | unknown | Callaghan 1997:58; missing only in Pal; compare Mis Tajič, Miw *$aji:ch; Nisenan ch'ajit “bluejay”; probably a loan into the proto-language; UA words like cha'ish are same thing | WW | %chaj | same | reduplicated | Newman 1944:14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
| Yuki | Aphelocoma californica? | čą7e A | bluejay | loan | *č'ə7əy | Yukian | unknown | Schlichter 1985; areal | WW | %chaj | underived | Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuma | Aphelocoma californica? | hre-kă-poo-soo' | California jay (Aphelocoma) | unique | unknown | Merriam 61:455 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no |
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