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 | Sphermophilus sp. | po/-hot | Gray ground squirrel (Spermophilus sp. (in pencil at 60-451: weasel?) | loan | Yokuts | Yowlumne po'-hal; po'-hol; po-hahl; Wikchamni po-hōd'; bo'-had; po'-had; bo-hot (cognate so PNY) | same | underived | C. H. Merriam, 72-77; 60-451 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone | Sphermophilus sp. | tseep' (RV, pencil at RM with ??; tsippih duckwater 291 | Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group) | inheritance | *cippi | Numic | Stubbs 2098b (2008:289) | same | underived | perhaps sound-imititive originally | Merriam 61:69 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cahuilla | Sphermophilus sp. | sísilʸ | ˈsisiʎ | chipmunk (see species notes) | inheritance | Proto-Takic *soso > Chumash ʃoʃo “chipmunk, flying squirrel” | WW | %sik | unclear | other complex | sisi-ly | -7aʃ "pet" | animal is -7ash; the meat is with a meat classifier, usually -sex7a “cooked item” or -wa7 “roasted item” (Seiler 1977:304-5) | Seiler & Hioki 1979:186 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | Men | boiled, roasted | 0 | 0 | North America | woodlands | no | ||||||||||||
Central Sierra Miwok | Sphermophilus sp. | Tičá:šy- | California ground squirrel | inheritance | Sierra Miwokan only | Also in Miss as per Merriam | other complex | -y nominalizer | Freeland & Broadbent 1960 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Chemehuevi | Sphermophilus sp. | sikútsI | Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group) | loan into protolanguage | *sika (wV) | Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan | Gabrielino | Stubbs 2094a; I think transparently unitable with his S. Numic *sikkuC (2008:288); an old loan | WW | %sik | same | other complex | has -ci ABS | Merriam 59:523 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
Chumash Barbareno | Sphermophilus sp. | pistuk | squirrel | inheritance | Also in Ventureno | underived | Heizer/Pinart I:57 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chumash Ineseno | Sphermophilus sp. | ʔemet' | ground squirrel (Merriam 55:5 confirms Citellus beecheyi) | inheritance | *emet', em'et' | Proto-Chumash | Klar 1977:110 | underived | Applegate 212 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Chumash Obispeno | Sphermophilus sp. | teme' | ground squirrel | inheritance | *emet', em'et' | Proto-Chumash | Klar 1977:110 | other complex | t- | Klar 1977;110 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chumash Ventureno | Sphermophilus sp. | pistuk | Gray ground squirrel, Citellus beecheyi group | inheritance | Also in Barbareno | underived | Merriam 55:37; JPH III:91:0133 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cocopa | Sphermophilus sp. | ci·š | roundtail ground squirrel (Citellus tereticaudus) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Mojave ɂatiis | same | underived | Crawford 1989 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Comanche | Sphermophilus sp. | ewa kɨɨpi? | ground squirrel | inheritance | *iNkwa | Numic | Stubbs 2099 (2008:289) | same | finite clause? | ground.squirrel bite-er?? | Robinson & Armagost 1990:161 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
Cupeño | Sphermophilus sp. | qingish | ˈqiŋiʃ | squirrel | inheritance | *koŋi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | S2092 (Stubbs 2009:288) | same | other complex | ˈqiŋi-ʃ varmint-npn (see ethnobiological notes) | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Hill & Nolasquez 1973:170 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | diverse preparations | 0 | 0 | North America | diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||||
Esselen | Sphermophilus sp. | mexe, he:x | ground squirrel | loan | Costanoan | 1986:699 notes (h)e:x in Costanoan; appears in all Costanoan in Kroeber, Pinart | underived | Shaul 1995:227 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gabrielino | Sphermophilus sp. | xo:ngit | ˈxo:ŋit | ardilla | loan | *koŋi- | Serrano or Kitanemuk | vowel is wrong, should have e: as in Luiseno. May just be Mrs. Rosenmyre slipping into the wrong language. | same | other complex | ˈxo:ŋi-t ground.squirrel-npn | -ʔaʧ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Harrington 543, 548, etc. | no info | 2 | 1 | McC p. 116 | no info | hunted | men | roasted, boiled, bones ground | 0 | 0 | North America | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||||
Iipay 'Aa | Sphermophilus sp. | ɂehmaall | ground squirrel; Merriam Gray ground squirrel, Citellus beecheyi group (55:201) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Kiliwa xmaal | same | underived | Couro & Hutcheson 1973 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Kawaiisu | Sphermophilus sp. | Ɂewu-ci | ground squirrel | inheritance | *iCkwa/*iNkwa | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 2099 (2008:289) | same | other complex | Ɂewu-ci ground. squirrel-ABS | Zigmond et al. | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
Kiliwa | Sphermophilus sp. | nway | mexican ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | probably related to MOUSE (Kiliwa waay; cf. Colorado River ?avee) | same | underived | Mixco 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Kitanemuk | Sphermophilus sp. | koŋit | ˈkoŋit | squirrel sp.: probably Nelson's Antelope Squirrel | inheritance | *koŋi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | S2092 (Stubbs 2009:288) | same | other complex | ˈkoŋi-t ground.squirrel-npn | -ʔacit "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Anderton 1988:361 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | roasted, boiled, bones ground, diverse preparations | 0 | 0 | North America | Diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||||
Lake Miwok | Sphermophilus sp. | cíTe | ground squirrel | inheritance | Pmiw only | Bodega Dic ; Note Wappo cihma ?? | underived | Callaghan 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luiseño | Sphermophilus sp. | qéengish | ʹqe:ŋiʃ | ground squirrel | inheritance | *koŋi- | Northern Uto-Aztecan | S2092 (Stubbs 2009:288) | same | other complex | ʹqe:ŋi-ʃ ground.squirrel-non.possessed.noun | Elliott 1999:804 | This is the real name of the 'anooyam “Coyote” tribal group (today “King” JHH) | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | broiling on coals (Sparkman 1908:199) | 0 | 0 | North America | diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||||||
Maidu | Sphermophilus sp. | hiló | ground squirrel (CHM confirms Citellus beecheyi) | inheritance | Maiduan | Ultan 1964:368 #332 no reconstruction proposed | underived | Shipley 1963 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mojave | Sphermophilus sp. | ɂatiis | ground squirrel, gopher | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | C. ci·š | same | underived | Munro et al.1992 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Mutsun | Sphermophilus sp. | 7e:h | squirrel (Merriam confirms Gray Ground squirrel Merriam 55:405) | inheritance | Costanoan | Shaul 1986:699 gives in all C; also Esselen he:x | underived | Okrand 1977:333 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nisenan | Sphermophilus sp. | hiləw | ground squirrel | inheritance | Maiduan | Ultan 1964:368 #332 no reconstruction proposed | underived | Uldall & Shipley 1966 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Paiute | Sphermophilus sp. | ō'dĕgoo'-bah; ō'-re-kŭ-bah | Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group) | unique | unknown | Merriam 61:135 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Sierra Miwok | Sphermophilus sp. | 7upuksu-, 7opuksu- | ground squirrel (Merriam confirms gray ground squirrel 57:419 | inheritance | Eastern Miwokan | This is a “critter” word -- also in this meaning in Miss, Mip | underived | Callaghan 1987 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Plains Miwok | Sphermophilus sp. | 7opuk, 7upuksu- | ground squirrel | inheritance | Eastern Miwokan | In Mins, Miss | underived | Callaghan 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salinan A | Sphermophilus sp. | šomk'óm' | squirrel (Merriam confirms Gray ground squirrel) | unique | Salinan | underived | Mason 1918:125; Turner 1980:84 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salinan M | Sphermophilus sp. | samkó'm | squirrel (Merriam confirms Gray Ground squirrel 55:367) | unique | Salinan | underived | Mason 1918:125 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seri (Comcaac) | Sphermophilus sp. | ziix cozíp | round-tailed ground squirrel (Sphermophilus tereticaudus | unique | same | relative clause | cosa que besa | Comcaac Dictionary 622 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serrano | Sphermophilus sp. | kĕr'-rum; kŭr'-runt, kŭr-rumpt | gray ground squirrel | unique | Could this be just 17 in CHM's interpretation? | other complex | -t NPN | Merriam 72-27, 60-97 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Paiute | Sphermophilus sp. | sikutsI | Squirrel (Merriam: Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group) | loan into protolanguage | *sika(wV) | Proto-Northern Uto-Aztecan | unknown | Stubbs 2094a (2008:288), I think transparently unitable with these S. Numic forms | WW | %sik | same | other complex | has -tsi ABS | Sapir 1930:657 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||
Southern Sierra Miwok | Sphermophilus sp. | hac:i-c:Y-meH; TicaHn-, Yicik-Hna-, Ticici-, wuje-t-7ucaH; 7upuksi- | ground squirrel (Merriam has te-chah'-sŏ 57:551) | inheritance | Eastern Miwokan | Merriam form also in Mics; 7up form also in Mins, Mip | underived | Broadbent 1964: | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Ute | Sphermophilus sp. | ?akwísi-kų-cI | squirrel | inheritance | *sika(wV) | Northern Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 2094a (2008:288), I think transparently unitable with southern Numic siku | same | phrase | chipmunk-squirrel-abs. Givon's segmentation is wrong as shown by etymology, should be ?akwí-sikų-cI | Givon 1979 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
Tübatulabal | Sphermophilus sp. | tsawānünt | ʦawa:ˈnɨnt | Gray squirrel, Scurius griseus | unique | same | other complex | ʦawa:ˈnɨn-t ground.squirrel-npn (root may have derivation) | Hill 2010:90 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | roasted on coals, bones ground | 0 | 0 | North America | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||||||||||
Tümpisa Shoshone | Sphermophilus sp. | engwü | squirrel sp.(with long fluffy tail and white neck) (word matches Merriam's Spermophilus form) | inheritance | *iCkwa/*iNkwa | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 2099 (2008:289) | same | underived | Dayley 1989:13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Wappo | Sphermophilus sp. | cíhma | squirrel, ground squirrel (CHM confirms 52:565) | loan | Pomo | Pn čimát' “tree squirrel”; Pomo *ku:maT' “squirrel” McLendon 1973:92 | underived | Sawyer 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washo | Sphermophilus sp. | bá:sat | gray ground squirrel (red squirrel in WPD) | unique | underived | Merriam 55:299; WPD | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Western Mono | Sphermophilus sp. | Ek'-wah, ek'-wă; ekwɨ | voiceless final | Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group) (Merriam), (golden-mantled) ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) Bethel | inheritance | *iCkwa/*iNkwa | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 2099 (2008:289) | same | underived | Merriam 59:69; Bethel et al. 19 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | no info | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||
Wintu | Sphermophilus sp. | Lat | ground squirrel (CHM confirms at 56:67 in “Ono wintu, Wintu proper”) | inheritance | *L'et | Wintun | Shepherd 2005 | underived | Pitkin 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yavapai | Sphermophilus sp. | hmílta | Harris ground squirrel | unique | Probably chipmunk -big | unknown | Shaterian 1983 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yokuts Palewyami | Sphermophilus sp. | šaxtʱil | squirrel; ground squirrel in Kroeber 1961:200 | loan into protolanguage | *şixthil/*şixi:thal | Yokutsan | Yok-Utian | Callaghan 1937:38, compare Pmiw *čiTe, and similar costanoan forms in sich, chich | WW | %sik | same | underived | Gamble 1991 (from Harrington) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||
Yokuts Yawdanchi | Sphermophilus sp. | bohad | ground squirrel (Merriam confirms 58:359) | inheritance | Nim-Yokuts | Yawd, Wik, also Yawl in my data | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:200 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Yokuts Yowlumne | Sphermophilus sp. | şitxil | ground squirrel (Merriam confirms po:hal Citellus beecheyi group Gray ground squirrel | loan into protolanguage | *şixthil/*şixi:thal | Yokutsan | Callagan 1997:38 compare Pmiw *čiTe, and similar costanoan forms in sich, chich | WW | %sik | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:200 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yuki | Sphermophilus sp. | šišąl' F | gray ground squirrel (CHM confirms) | loan | *šiš, *šiša | Yukian | unknown | Schlichter 1985 | WW | %sik | underived | Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yuma | Sphermophilus sp. | ă-tees' | Ground squirrel (Citellus tereticauda) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | C. ci·š | unknown | Merriam 61:451 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no |
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