Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

chipmunk

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 Tamias spp. che-wil'-le Chipmunk (Tamias spp.) loan Yokuts Wikchamni te-witch'-e; Yowlumne che-wil'-le (same as Callospermophilus) same underived C. H. Merriam 72-801, 60-451 2 1 0 0 0 no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone Tamias spp. wo'ai chipmunk, squirrel (M: chipmunk (Eutamias) inheritance *wo'ta Numic Stubbs 2100 (2008:289), might be PUA same underived Crapo 1976:117 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cahuilla Tamias spp. wis'-koo 72-11, 60-161 ˈwiskun (note Luiseño wiskun “chipmunk”, Elliott 1999:1283), and Merriam has final /n/ in other dialects Tamias spp., chipmunk inheritance *wiskun Takic In several languages and non-correspondent; loan into Proto-Takic?? unclear underived note absence of NPN suffix; presumably a loan -7aʃ "pet" animal is -7ash; the meat is with a meat classifier, usually -sex7a “cooked item” or -wa7 “roasted item” (Seiler 1977:304-5) http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n155/mode/2up; p. 161 no info 2 1 no info hunted Men boiled, roasted 0 0 North America woodlands no
Central Sierra Miwok Tamias spp. pisú:- chipmunk; Tahoe chipmunk inheritance Sierra Miwokan only In all Mis underived Freeland & Broadbent 1960 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chemehuevi Tamias spp. taváɂatsI Chipmunk (Eutamias) inheritance *tapa- Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan Stubbs 2095 (2008:288) same other complex has -ci ABS Merriam 59:523 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Barbareno Tamias spp. ʃoʃo chipmunk, flying squirrel loan Takic WW %sik reduplicated Beeler 1978:184 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ineseno Tamias spp. missing inheritance missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Obispeno Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Chumash Ventureno Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cocopa Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Comanche Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Cupeño Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Esselen Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Gabrielino Tamias spp. se-se'-kot 72-77, 60-419 siˈsi:kot Chipmunk inheritance *sika-(wV) Northern Uto-Aztecan S2094 (Stubbs 2009:288); may be very early loan into NUA; note similar Yokuts forms; but this form attests Proto-Takic $o$o (cf. Cahuilla sisi), combined with the sikawet word???) WW %sik broader (includes tree squirrels, apparently) other complex siˈsi:ko-t chipmunk-npn (root has redup) -ʔaʧ "pet" possessive classifier for animals http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 419 no info 2 chipmunk made the Creator's coffin (Harrington 1978) 1 McC p. 116 no info hunted men roasted, boiled, bones ground 0 0 North America woodlands no
Iipay 'Aa Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kawaiisu Tamias spp. tavaɁa-zi chipmunk inheritance *tapa ... Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan Stubbs 2095 (2008:288) same other complex tavaɁa-zi chipmunk-ABS Zigmond et al. 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kiliwa Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Kitanemuk Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 North America woodlands no
Lake Miwok Tamias spp. tóktokciTe chipmunk (Merriam confirms 57:515) unique phrase, reduplicated Callaghan 1965 2 1 0 0 0 no
Luiseño Tamias spp. wískun ʹwiskun chipmunk inheritance *wiskun Takic in several Takic languages and irregular, probably a loan into early Takic same underived probable loan although widespread Elliott 1999:1080 no info 2 wiskun made a coffin of a great log for Wuyot (Harrington) 1 no info no info no info no info 0 0 North America woodlands no
Maidu Tamias spp. wísla small chipmunk (CHM confirms as Eutamias) unique underived Shipley 1963 2 1 0 0 0 no
Mojave Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Mutsun Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Nisenan Tamias spp. pe-soo' chipmunk loan Sierra Miwok pe-soo' is Sierra Miwok loan underived Merriam 57:231 2 1 0 0 0 no
Northern Paiute Tamias spp. tabba Chipmunk inheritance *tapa Northern Uto-Aztecan Stubbs 2095 (2008:288) same underived Merriam 61:135 2 1 0 0 0 no
Northern Sierra Miwok Tamias spp. pe-soo chipmunk inheritance Sierra Miwokan only In all Mis underived Merriam 57:421 2 1 0 0 0 no
Plains Miwok Tamias spp. ton:oko- Merriam chipmunk inheritance Eastern Miwokan In Mins, Mics but for spotted skunk only underived Callaghan 1984 2 1 0 0 0 no
Salinan A Tamias spp. mec'eko(7) chipmunk (Merriam confirms Eutamias) unique Salinan underived probably etymologically complex Mason 1918:123 Turner 1980:71 2 1 0 0 0 no
Salinan M Tamias spp. mats'éko' chipmunk (Merriam confirms Eutamius) unique Salinan underived Mason 1918:123 2 1 0 0 0 no
Seri (Comcaac) Tamias spp. xpasíticl Harris' antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) unique same underived looks like 2 words but it's bad spacing before accented vowel in this font Comcaac Dictionary 598 2 1 0 0 0 no
Serrano Tamias spp. hika:y-t chipmunk (CHM says hikayt is tree squirrel, wisko (Cahuilla loan) is chipmunk 72-77, 60-99) loan into protolanguage *sika(-wV-) Northern Uto-Aztecan Gabrielino S2094a (Stubbs 2008:288) WW %sik other complex -t NPN KCHill ms 2001:13 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Paiute Tamias spp. o'itsitsI very small, yellowish, white-striped “chipmunk” (Tamias dorsalis? Spermophilus?) Merriam: Chipmunk (Eutamias) inheritance *wo'ta Proto-Numic (maybe PUA) Stubbs 2100 (2008:289) same other complex note -tsi ABS plus -tsi DIM Sapir 1930:594 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Sierra Miwok Tamias spp. pisu- Tahoe chipmunk inheritance Sierra Miwokan only In all Mis underived Broadbent 1964: 2 1 0 0 0 no
Southern Ute Tamias spp. ?akwíisi-cI chipmunk unique same other complex has -ci ABS Givon 1979 2 1 0 0 0 no
Tübatulabal Tamias spp. tapāyal taba:ˈjal “chipmunk”, a small chipmunk-like ground squirrel, possibly the white-tail antelope ground squirrel inheritance *tapa ... Northern Uto-Aztecan S2095 (Stubbs 2009:288) same other complex taba:ˈja-l chipmunk-npn Hill 2010:85 no info 2 1 no info hunted men roasted on coals, bones ground 0 0 North America woodlands no
Tümpisa Shoshone Tamias spp. wo'aittsi, wo'ettsi Panamint chipmunk (matches Merriam's Eutamias) inheritance *wo'ta Proto-Numic (maybe PUA) Stubbs 2100 (2008:289) same other complex wo'ai-ttsi chipmunk-dim Dayley 1989:387 2 1 0 0 0 no
Wappo Tamias spp. hōl-tsel'-mah chipmunk unique phrase hol “tree” Merriam 52:567 2 1 0 0 0 no
Washo Tamias spp. 7úc'uli7 Chipmunk (Eutamias) unique underived Merriam 55:299; WPD 2 1 0 0 0 no
Western Mono Tamias spp. woda' little chipmunk (lives in the valley) inheritance *wo'ta Proto-Numic Stubbs 2100 (2008:289) same underived Bethel et al. no info 2 1 no info hunted men no info 0 0 no
Wintu Tamias spp. č'upč'ubukus chipmunk (OK CHM) inheritance *č'ube “mouse, rat” Wintun Shepherd 2005:81 phrase elements unknown, -us presumably derivaitonal Pitkin 1985 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yavapai Tamias spp. hmíra chipmunk inheritance Proto-Yuman Mojave humɂiir “squirrel” unknown Shaterian 1983 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Palewyami Tamias spp. missing missing missing 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yawdanchi Tamias spp. tciviyi, tcivili chipmunk (Merriam confirms 58:359) inheritance Nim-Yokuts Yowl. che-wil'-le same underived Kroeber 1907:241 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yokuts Yowlumne Tamias spp. che-wil'-le chipmunk, Eutamias inheritance Nim-Yokuts see Yawd tciviyi, tcivili (in Kroeber and Merriam) same underived Merriam 58:549 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yuki Tamias spp. naw-kin'-ne-um MWO, mΩ:k'ɩnɩn LL chipmunk unique other complex -am derives nouns Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 2 1 0 0 0 no
Yuma Tamias spp. missing inheritance missing 2 1 0 0 0 no