Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

top grinding stone

Semantic Field
manufacture
Part of Speech
Meaning Spanish
metate, mano; piedra de moler
Meaning Portuguese
metate, mano

Languages

Language Orthographic Form Phonemicized Form Gloss as in Source Etymology Code Proto-Form Proto-Language Loan Source Wanderwort Status Etyma Set Etymology Notes Word Structure Word Structure Notes General Notes Source
Bankalachi Toloim ph-ho'-wel pestle of stone 189 loan direction unknown
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone potton inheritance
Cahuilla paxwal loan direction unknown S&H 1979
Central Sierra Miwok pa/T:a- loan
Chemehuevi mu7U “mano de metate” inheritance JPH
Chumash Barbareno c'unij'ik “pestle” unknown Beeler 1978
Chumash Cruzeno ts'unijyk “mano de mortero” inheritance JPH
Chumash Obispeno jatspu jachiLmu7 “la mano del mortero” unknown JPH
Chumash Ventureno ts'unihjykH “mano de mortero” unknown JPH
Cocopa xpusa/ loan
Comanche tyraju7ne7 “pestle” inheritance
Cupeño mala-l pe-ma [məˈlal pəmə] inheritance
Esselen kushshe “pestle” (mano del mortero) unknown Pinart (Heizer)
Gabrielino ah-pah-ho “pestle of stone” loan direction unknown CHM/MC245
Iipay 'Aa hapechaa [xapəˈtʃaˑ] inheritance
Kawaiisu mo7o-ci inheritance
Kiliwa xmaa unknown Mixco 1985
Kitanemuk pahut “pestle” loan direction unknown
Lake Miwok to/waj “pestle” unique
Luiseño to:pa-wu-t “pestle” (no “mano”) loan into protolanguage, direction unknown
Maidu sune/ “pestle” unknown
Mojave ham'uuche inheritance
Mutsun palsin “grinding stone” “mano de mortero de Indios”, o metate” loan NW (JPH)
Nisenan baj loan direction unknown
Northern Sierra Miwok kawa:ci- inheritance
Plains Miwok hopa-, unknown
Salinan A aihe unknown
Salinan M pane/, p'An'E 'pestle' loan direction unknown Mason 1918:133
Seri (Comcaac) hast icosi/c “mano de metate” (lit. piedra con que uno muele) unknown
Serrano pa:hu7t “pestle” loan direction unknown
Southern Paiute mo7a-tsi, mu7a-ts, mwo7a-ts inheritance
Southern Sierra Miwok kawa:-ci- “pestle” inheritance
Southern Ute mu7wachI “pestle” inheritance
Tübatulabal pohoo(7)wal “pestle” loan direction unknown
Tümpisa Shoshone tusu(ttsih) inheritance
Wappo ch'o/la “pestle” loan direction unknown
Washo bi/c'ik unknown J184
Western Mono poda/nU “mano, pestle” inheritance
Wintu sataq “pestle”, inheritance
Yavapai ha\vcha_(:), ha\v?cha/ , ha\vcha/(:), ha\v?cha_“mano” inheritance
Yokuts Palewyami pol/-woi “pestle” loan into protolanguage, direction unknown Berman 2002
Yokuts Yawdanchi padu-i “pestle” 235 loan into protolanguage, direction unknown K07:235
Yokuts Yowlumne polwoy “pestle for grinding corn” loan into protolanguage, direction unknown N1944, 1964
Yuki kaw/-lum CHM, k'ol-amT inheritance S&S 1984
Yuma xam7u:kye/ “pestle” H3:208, xam7u:che/ “muller, mano” H3:208 inheritance
Cubeo ẽpacʉrabo ẽpakɨɾabo unknown use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Dâw -- -- missing use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Yanomami poo (top, for hallucinogens) po: unique use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Arabana [missing] missing
Bardi [absent] missing
Bunuba gurra 'stone axe' loan
Burarra [missing] missing
Dhangu [missing] missing
Dhuwal [missing] missing
Dhuwala [missing] missing
Diyari murdcooparoo unique
DiyariREU [missing] missing
Djambarrpuyngu [missing] missing
Djapu [missing] missing
Djinang [missing] missing
Gajirrabeng mandalng inheritance
Gooniyandi ?goorra 'grindstone' loan
Gupapuyngu [missing] missing
Gurindji marang loan
Jabirr-Jabirr [absent] missing
Jaru jungari inheritance
Jawi [absent] missing
Karajarri jungari inheritance
Kija manja-ny inheritance
Malyangapa [missing] missing
Mangala jungari inheritance
Miriwung mandalng inheritance
Mithaka [missing] missing
Mudburra binyjawunyja
Mudburra binyjawinyja inheritance
Ngamini mardatayitayi unique
Ngandi X inheritance
Ngarluma barruru unique
Nhirrpi [missing] missing
Nimanburru [absent] missing
Northern Mangarla [missing] missing
Northern Nyangumarta piyanapinti unknown
Nyangumarta piyanapinti
Nyikina [absent] missing
Nyulnyul [absent] missing
Paakantyi [missing] missing
Pirriya [missing] missing
Pitta-Pitta [missing] missing
Rirratjingu [missing] missing
Ritharrngu maal' inheritance
Walmajarri marangu loan
Wangkayutyuru mara partali unique
Warrwa [absent] missing
Wubuy X missing
Yan-nhangu [missing] missing
Yandruwandha mardra nhiwa, mardra pawa unique
Yarluyandi [missing] missing
Yawarrawarrka [missing] missing
Yawuru [absent] missing
Páez hune cueth hune kuetj use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Puinave ha ha use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Siona toabë toabɨ use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Karitiana opi opi use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Kamayurá ahwɑ̃j ahwɑ̃j use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Ese Ejja/Huarayo me-i etaxaxi (Girard 1971) me-i etaxaxi use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Cavineña makana makana use word for top grinding stone if different from bottom stone See Language page
Canela ii-kʰĩ *Jê form is *ki. Related meaning is 'fur' 06.280. See Language page
Kariña sepi sepi grindstone, whet-stone Courtz 2007:366