Hunter-Gatherer Language Database

initiate girl

Semantic Field: culture-mythology
Part of Speech
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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

Language	Orthographic Form	Gloss as in Source	Etymology Code	Proto-Form	Proto-Language	Etymology Notes	Word Structure	Word Structure Notes	Source
Bankalachi Toloim	missing		missing
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone	missing		missing
Cahuilla	7ew-lu-ni	to do puberty rites for, to initiate girls	unknown			Cahuilla, Cupeno only -- this is blood-do-caus, all good UA material, but unique formation	derived	blood-inchoative-cause	Seiler & Hioki 1979
Central Sierra Miwok	missing		missing
Chemehuevi	missing		missing
Chumash Barbareno	missing		missing
Chumash Ineseno	missing		missing
Chumash Obispeno	missing		missing
Chumash Ventureno	missing		missing
Cocopa	missing		missing
Comanche	missing		missing
Cupeño	ewlu'-ni	initiate girl	unknown			Cupeno and Cahuilla only, means 'cause to bleed'	derived		Hill & Nolasquez 1973
Esselen	missing		missing
Gabrielino	missing		missing
Iipay 'Aa	missing		missing
Kawaiisu	missing		missing
Kiliwa	missing		missing
Kitanemuk	nihnic	fiesta for girl at end of 4 months diet, < nihnea 'be accustomed'	inheritance	*nich-	Takic	grow of women; Hill/Miller no-04, -11	other complex		Anderton 1988
Lake Miwok	missing		missing
Luiseño	wiqeni-	hold girls' puberty ceremony (I've backformed from wiqenish)	unique				simplex	root	Elliott 1999
Maidu	jy/pym sòlí	girls' puberty ceremony	unique			also mâk, the elegant expression	phrase	jy/py 'have first menstrual period'	Shipley 1963
Mojave	missing		missing
Mutsun	missing		missing
Nisenan	missing		missing
Northern Paiute	mooe peggwaha	first roasting	unique				phrase		Yerington 1987
Northern Sierra Miwok	missing		missing
Plains Miwok	missing		missing
Salinan A	pun-nă-tah	puberty dance	unknown				simplex		Merriam 38:409
Salinan M	missing		missing
Seri (Comcaac)	missing		missing
Serrano	kwa-hahn'	puberty dance (literally, 'to cook' JHH)	semantic shift	*kwasi	Uto-Aztecan		simplex	root, literally 'to cook'	Merriam 48:191
Southern Paiute	missing		missing
Southern Sierra Miwok	missing		missing
Southern Ute	missing		missing
Tübatulabal	missing		missing
Tümpisa Shoshone	missing		missing
Wappo	missing		missing
Washo	t'é7wé7we7	girl's puberty dance	unknown			note Maidu t'e- 'action with foot'	derived	t- nmlzr, -ewe 'resultative	Washo Project Dictionary
Western Mono	yah-man'-nah ho'-nah, tŭ-man'-nah ho'-nah	puberty dance	unique				phrase		Merriam 45:319
Wintu	missing		missing
Yavapai	missing		missing
Yokuts Palewyami	missing		missing
Yokuts Yawdanchi	missing		missing
Yokuts Yawelmani	missing		missing
Yuki	hamnam wok	puberty ceremony for girls (lit. lie dance)	inheritance	*hënëmwok	Proto-North Yukian		phrase		Schlichter 1985


Bankalachi Toloim
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone
Cahuilla
Central Sierra Miwok
Chemehuevi
Chumash Barbareno
Chumash Ineseno
Chumash Obispeno
Chumash Ventureno
Cocopa
Comanche
Cupeño
Esselen
Gabrielino
Iipay 'Aa
Kawaiisu
Kiliwa
Kitanemuk
Lake Miwok
Luiseño
Maidu
Mojave
Mutsun
Nisenan
Northern Paiute
Northern Sierra Miwok
Plains Miwok
Salinan A
Salinan M
Seri (Comcaac)
Serrano
Southern Paiute
Southern Sierra Miwok
Southern Ute
Tübatulabal
Tümpisa Shoshone
Wappo
Washo
Western Mono
Wintu
Yavapai
Yokuts Palewyami
Yokuts Yawdanchi
Yokuts Yawelmani
Yuki

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