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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 | Corvus brachyrhynchos | al'-wut | Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) | loan | Yokuts | Yawdanchi ad'-dŏ-wut'; Yowlumne al'-lă-woot'r so showing cognacy in NimYokuts; this loan also in Takic | WW | %alwut | same | underived | C. H. Merriam 72-77, 60-455 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Big Smokey Valley Shoshone | Corvus brachyrhynchos | gak' (?)RV; kahk RM; Crapo 110 haih raven, crow; kaa”, kaa-cci crow | Crow (Corvus americanus) | inheritance | *kak | Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 584 (2008:117) (I think haih is Yokutsan, check! | same | underived | sound imitative but throughout the family so not a neologistic sound-im, better simplex | Merriam 61:73 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cahuilla | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ʔálwet | ʹɂalwet | crow | loan into protolanguage | *ʔata-wɨ-ta | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Yokuts | S582 (Stubbs 2009:116); Loaned into Yokuts, or maybe from Yokuts?? Is it really NUA? | WW | %alwut | same | derived | ʹɂal-wet mock-augmentative (probably, if this is of Takic origin) | -7aʃ “pet” | Possessive classifier -7aʃ | wikikmal | Seiler&Hioki 1979:14 | Crow is a Wildcat Moiety Animal (Strong 1929:109) | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | All | roasted, stewed, eggs eaten | 0 | 0 | All Americas | Diverse habitats | no | ||||||||
| Central Sierra Miwok | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ká:kulu- | crow | unique | Note Mil kaakali, Callaghan Bodega Dic 33 thinks Mil might be loan from Costanoan | underived | Freeland & Broadbent 1960 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemehuevi | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ă-tăt'-tuts | ɂatápɘtsI (JPH) | Crow (Corvus americanus) | inheritance | *atta-wɨ-ta | unknown | Stubbs 582 (2009:116), this version with -ka in Southern Numic only: Southern Ute taq'o-ci (Givon); Southern Paiute 'ata-G, 'ataqwotsi “crow”; note Mojave 'atqaaq “type of crow” | same | other complex | ɂatá-pɘ-tsI crow-?-ABS | Merriam 59:527 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Barbareno | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ʔaʔ | crow | inheritance | *7a7 | Proto-Chumash | Obispeno t-a7 | underived | ʔaʔ-ʔiwaʃ crow-pejorative | Beeler 1978:171 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ineseno | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ah'-ă, ah'; ahk' | crow | inheritance | *7a7 | Proto-Chumash | Obispeno t-a7 | underived | ʔaʔ-ʔiwaʃ crow-pejorative | Merriam 55:9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Obispeno | Corvus brachyrhynchos | t-a7 | crow | inheritance | *7a7 | Proto-Chumash | “ta7 means both crow and roble, you have to mention some other word to distinguish” | other complex | t- | Harrington III:1:0049 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ventureno | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7a7awash | crow | inheritance | *7a7 | Proto-Chumash | Obispeno t-a7 | other complex | ʔaʔ-ʔiwaʃ crow-pejorative | Merriam 55:41; JPH III:69:0080 from FL) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cocopa | Corvus brachyrhynchos | qa·q | crow | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Sound-imitative but probably good as *qaaq | same | onomatopoeic | but cognate | Crawford 1989 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comanche | Corvus brachyrhynchos | tuwikaa? | raven, crow, blackbird | inheritance | *kak | Uto-Aztecan | Probably not a calque because it's in Rejon for “crow”; unique increment: Stubbs 584 (2008:117) | broader (seems to be any old black bird) | phrase | tu- “black”??? -kaa is the “crow” cognate | Robinson & Armagost 1990:163 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cupeño | Corvus brachyrhynchos | alwet | ˈʔalwət | crow | loan into protolanguage | *ʔata-wɨ-ta | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Yokuts | S582 (Stubbs 2009:116); Loaned into Yokuts or maybe from Yokuts?? | WW | %alwut | same | derived | ˈʔal-wə-t crow-augmentative-npn | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | mukikmal | Hill & Nolasquez 1973:151 | no info | 2 | crow calls, raven calls as signal to give 3-day manit ceremony (Strong 1929:259) | 1 | eggs surely eaten | no info | no info | no info | no info | 0 | 0 | Americas | diverse habitats | no | ||||||
| Esselen | Corvus brachyrhynchos | icka | crow | unique | Esselen | underived | Form from Henshaw in Shaul 1988:699; Turner & Shaul 1981:120 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabrielino | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7aka:wkoc | ʔaˈka:wkoʧ | crow | unique | Perhaps ultimately from onomatopoeia but a more complex construction. This is more like the Yuman /qaq/ forms than the UA *atta forms. | same | underived | ʔaˈka:wkoʧ: ʧ is not a Gabrielino NPN. Harrington also has 7awkot “crow” , so it seems likely there is some derivation here. Crow words are often loaned or sound-imitative. | ʔaʧ “pet” | possessive classifier for animals | chi:ya | Harrington 541, 601 | no info | 2 | beaks, claws in Chingichngich figure (McC p. 28); but Harrington's Boscana notes caution may have been raven, not crow. crow danced hilariously at Wuyot's funeral, so people forgot themselves and laughed (Harrington 1978;121) | 1 | all birds eaten (McC 116) | no info | hunted | men | roasted | 0 | 0 | if feathers were used in ceremonial regalia, they were traded | Americas | diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||
| Iipay 'Aa | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ɂehtaay | crow | loan | Californian | ?ata widespread in California -- but -taay could be “big” (in which case “raven”??? | same | underived | Note that /taay/ “big” is not synchronic in 'Iipay Aa | Couro & Hutcheson 1973 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kawaiisu | Corvus brachyrhynchos | Ɂataka-zi | crow | inheritance | *ʔata-wɨ-ta | Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 582 (2009:116), this version with -ka in Southern Numic only: Southern Ute taq'o-ci (Givon); Southern Paiute 'ata-G, 'ataqwotsi “crow”; note Mojave 'atqaaq “type of crow” | same | other complex | Ɂataka-zi | Zigmond et al. | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Kiliwa | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ?+qhaaq | Crow | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Sound-im but probably good as *qaaq | same | other complex | ɂ- “dummy nominal prefix”; qaaq onomatopoeia | Mixco 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kitanemuk | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ʔaʔaʔ | ˈʔaʔaʔ | crow | loan | Chumash | Ventureno ʔaʔa-ʔiwaʃ “crow-pejorative” > ʔaʔawaʃ | same | reduplicated | -ʔacit "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | wicitat | Anderton 1988:262 | no info | 2 | 1 | no decent info but everybody ate songbirds and eggs | no info | hunted | men | roasted, boiled, eggs eaten | 0 | 0 | Americas | diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||||
| Lake Miwok | Corvus brachyrhynchos | káakali | crow | loan | unknown | might be loan from Costanoan Callaghan Bodega Dic 33, but note Mics ka:kulu- | underived | Callaghan 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luiseño | Corvus brachyrhynchos | alwut | ʹɁalwut | crow | loan into protolanguage | *ʔata-wɨ-ta | Uto-Aztecan | Yok-Utian | S582 (Stubbs 2009:116); Loaned into Yokuts | WW | %alwut | same | derived | ʹɁal-wu-t crow-augmentative-non.possessed.noun | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier; NPN form of noun is ʔaʃla | 7ehéngmal | Elliott 1999:112 | no info | 2 | feathers for headdress (Sparkman 1908:208); has ceremonial couplet, muuta, qeweewish, mixeel, mixeevawut (Y1134); crow danced hilariously at Wuyot's funeral, so people forgot themselves and laughed (Harrington 1978:122) | 1 | eggs at least must have been eaten | no info | hunted | men | feathers | 0 | 0 | dance regalia often bought and sold, but crow-feather items not mentioned | global | diverse habitats | no | |||||
| Maidu | Corvus brachyrhynchos | k'ákk'a, 7á7a | crow | loan | unknown | both are widespread areal forms | underived | Shipley 1963 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mojave | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ɂaqaaq | crow | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Sound-imitative but probably good as *qaaq | same | onomatopoeic | Munro et al.1992 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mutsun | Corvus brachyrhynchos | sa:ray | crow (Merriam confirms Merriam 55:409 | inheritance | Costanoan | Pinart has in Co II, III, IV | underived | Okrand 1977;150 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nisenan | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7a:k' | crow | loan | unknown | widespread similar areal forms | underived | Uldall & Shipley 1966 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Paiute | Corvus brachyrhynchos | kwē' ar'-rah' (arrah is “Raven”) | ada “crow” (Y) | Crow (Corvus americanus) | inheritance | *atta-wɨ-ta | Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 582 (2009:116), without the increment | same | underived | Merriam 61:139 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Sierra Miwok | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7a:wyc-y- | crow | inheritance | *a:wy(ch) | Miwokan | Callaghan 1997:28 | WW | %alwut | other complex | -y nominalizer | Callaghan 1987 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Plains Miwok | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7awic:i-, 7awyc:i- | smaller crow | inheritance | *7a:wy(ch) | Miwokan | Callaghan 1997:28 | WW | %alwut | underived | Callaghan 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan A | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ška:k' | crow | unique | Salinan | other complex | s- animal prefix (with sound symbolic variant?) | Mason 1918:123; Turner 1980:71 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan M | Corvus brachyrhynchos | cka:k' | crow | unique | Salinan | underived | Mason 1918:123 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seri (Comcaac) | Corvus brachyrhynchos | hanaj | j is /x/ | common raven | unique | broader (probably raven and crow) | underived | Comcaac Dictionary 324 | 2 | belongs to the devil and goes around killing with a bow. A person who kills a raven will be killed with a gun, perhpas by one of his own children. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serrano | Corvus brachyrhynchos | arTaw-t | r is retroflexion/pharyngealization on preceding vowel; T is retroflex | crow | loan into protolanguage | *atawɨ-t | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Yokuts | S582b (Stubbs 2008:116) | WW | %alwut | other complex | -t NPN | KCHill ms 2001:6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Paiute | Corvus brachyrhynchos | atapɨtsI | Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) (may be raven) | inheritance | *atta-wɨ-ta | Proto-Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 582 (2009:116), this version with -ka in Southern Numic only: Southern Ute taq'o-ci (Givon); Southern Paiute 'ata-G, 'ataqwotsi “crow”; note Mojave 'atqaaq “type of crow” | same | other complex | ata-pɨtsI crow-ABS (Sapir says it's not clear that -tsI here is the -tsi ABS) | Sapir 1930:553 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Sierra Miwok | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7a7:yt- | Crow | unique | This is an areal form, but what is it most like?It's missing the /w/ that's in Mics, Mins. | underived | Broadbent 1964: | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Ute | Corvus brachyrhynchos | táq?o-cI | crow, raven | inheritance | *atta-wɨ-ta | Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 582 (2009:116), this version with -ka in Southern Numic only: Southern Ute taq'o-ci (Givon); Southern Paiute 'ata-G, 'ataqwotsi “crow”; note Mojave 'atqaaq “type of crow”; this form is strange | broader (includes ravens) | other complex | has -ci ABS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tübatulabal | Corvus brachyrhynchos | akkapīppitt | ʔakabi:ˈpit | “little crow”, possibly a reference to the common crow, as distinguished from the raven | unique | This doesn't match any “crow” words; may be part of S584 *kak (Stubbs 2007:117), but not a good match. Nobody collected the Sierra Miwok word for “Raven”, might be a source | same | derived | ʔaka-bi:ˈ-pi-t raven-deriv.suffix-diminutive-npn | chikkīt | Hill 2010:4 | no info | 2 | usually Raven feathers show up in ritual paraphernalia, but Crow doesn't | 1 | Voegelin 1938:12 | no info | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 | 0 | Americas | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||||||
| Tümpisa Shoshone | Corvus brachyrhynchos | kaakki | crow, raven | inheritance | *kak | Proto-Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 584 (2008:117) | same | onomatopoeic | this according to Crapo Big Smokey Valley | Dayley 1989:39 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wappo | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ká7 | crow (CHM confirms 52:569) | unique | Miwokan, Costanoan forms similar | underived | Sawyer 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washo | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7á:7a | crow | unique | areal, but in this case source is impossible to determine because sound-imitation repeatedly comes up | reduplicated | Merriam 55:303; WPD | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Mono | Corvus brachyrhynchos | sibitɨmɨ | final voiceless | crow | unique | This one is REALLY out of line -- a mistake? A euphemism? Gifford gives kaka “crow” p. 37 | same | underived | must be derived somehow, too long for real simplex | tsiipa “bird” | Bethel et al. | a totem animal in Moiety I (Kroeber 1925:588) | 2 | totem animal | 1 | some totems not eaten | no info | hunted | men | no info | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||
| Wintu | Corvus brachyrhynchos | 7a:L, 7alal (P) | crow | inheritance | *7a:l | Wintun | Shepherd 2005 | underived | Schlichter 1981 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yavapai | Corvus brachyrhynchos | qsăq | a has hachek | crow | loan | Other Yuman? | Not PY *qaaq | unknown | Shaterian 1983 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Palewyami | Corvus brachyrhynchos | xotai | crow, raven | inheritance | Yokutsan | unique in Kroeber for “crow”, and NOT alwuT! But all but one of Kroeber's “raven” words (1961:202) look like this. | broader (probably raven and crow) | underived | Kroeber 1961:203, confirmed Merriam 58:521 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yawdanchi | Corvus brachyrhynchos | áduuT, adwutc (220) | crow | inheritance | *ɂalwuT' | Nim-Yokuts | Callaghan 1997:28, probably loan into this proto-language from UA *ata-wɨ-ta, hence Callaghan's resemblance to Pmi *ɂa:wy(č) is spurious | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:203 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yowlumne | Corvus brachyrhynchos | alwut | crow | inheritance | *ɂalwuT' | Nim-Yokuts | Callaghan 1997:28, surely a loan into Proto-Nim-Yokuts from UA *ata-wɨ-ta “crow-aug-NPN”; hence Callaghan's resemblance to Pmi *ɂa:wy(č) is spurious | WW | %alwut | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:203 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuki | Corvus brachyrhynchos | hančam A | crow | inheritance | *hənčam | Yukian | Schlichter 1985 | phrase | han -X?? | Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuma | Corvus brachyrhynchos | ah-kahk | Raven (Corvus corax) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Sound imitative but probably good as *qaaq | unknown | Merriam 61:455 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no |
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