Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors

milkweed, narrow leaf

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 Asclepias fascicularis chik'-kā-ye Milkweed (narrow leaf) loan Yokuts Yowlumne chik-ke “milkweed sp. (given for broad leaf as one of 2 forms); Chukchansi chek'-kah same underived C. H. Merriam 72-79, 60-473 0 1 1 0 0 no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone Asclepias fascicularis missing inheritance missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Cahuilla Asclepias fascicularis see notes missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Central Sierra Miwok Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Chemehuevi Asclepias fascicularis wəɂívimpə schwa voiceless red milkweed sp. inheritance *wiki or *wisi “string” Proto-Uto-Aztecan Note Kawaiisu wɨɁivɨbɨ; Stubbs 1796 (2008:254), or Stubbs 1475; I don't like the set but this is where Stubbs has these forms same other complex has -pɨ ABS Harrington Chemehuevi Noun List 0 1 1 0 0 no
Chumash Barbareno Asclepias fascicularis 7okhponush A. fascicularis inheritance Central Chumash only also in Ineseno other complex -Vš resultative Timbrook 2007:40 0 1 1 0 0 no
Chumash Ineseno Asclepias fascicularis 7okhponush A. fascicularis inheritance Central Chumash only Also in Barbareno other complex -Vsh resultative Timbrook 2007:40 0 1 1 0 0 no
Chumash Obispeno Asclepias fascicularis tpuq'u chichiquelite unique other complex t'- Harrington III:1:0264 0 1 1 Leaf with salt remedy for poison oak 0 0 no
Chumash Ventureno Asclepias fascicularis 7usha'ak Asclepias (eriocarpa and fascicularis) unique underived Timbrook 2007:40 0 1 1 0 0 no
Cocopa Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Comanche Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Cupeño Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Esselen Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Gabrielino Asclepias fascicularis to-hah'-che-ar' 72-79, 60-439 “chewing gum” in McC p. 247, but this is from A. eriocarpa toˈxa:ʧiʔar (?) Narrow-leaf Milkweed unique note Kitanemuk kacic?? Also note Chumash /tok/ “narrow-leaved milkweed, red milkweed”?? Lu. tokmat “white milkweed” broader (may include both milkweeds and the chewing gum) derived toˈxa:-ʧiʔa-r ?-?-npn -hi:n classifier for worthwhile possessions http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 439 no info 0 1 no info gathered (wild) women soaked and fiber stripped 0 0 Inland California to Washington, Baja California dry areas, slopes, 50-2200 m (Jepson Herbarium) no
Iipay 'Aa Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Kawaiisu Asclepias fascicularis wɨɁivɨbɨ Aesclepias fascicularis inheritance *wiki or *wisi “string” Proto-Uto-Aztecan Stubbs 1796 (2008:254), or Stubbs 1475 same other complex wɨɁivɨ-bɨ string-ABS bɨ, pɨ bɨ, pɨ seem to classify for plants, trees 1981 Zigmond 0 1 1 fiber 0 0 no
Kiliwa Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Kitanemuk Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 Inland California to Washington, Baja California dry areas, slopes, 50-2200 m (Jepson Herbarium) no
Lake Miwok Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Luiseño Asclepias fascicularis páatamkat ʹpa:tamkat milkweed; Bright, Asclepias eriocarpa unique contains *pa:- “big/water” same derived ʹpa:-tamka-t big/water-plant.sp-non.possessed.noun Elliott 1999:671 no info 0 The sun set in place by a hero with his milkweed-fiber net (Strong 1929:295) -- Strong says was the “reddish” milkweed, probably fascicularis 1 1 medicinal value (Harrington) gathered (wild) women leaves soaked and fiber stripped 0 0 Inland California to Washington, Baja California dry areas, slopes, 50-2200 m (Jepson Herbarium) no
Maidu Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Mojave Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Mutsun Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Nisenan Asclepias fascicularis tim-tim A. fascicularis unique reduplicated Merriam 57:251 0 1 young plants eaten for greens 1 0 0 no
Northern Paiute Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Northern Sierra Miwok Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Plains Miwok Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Salinan A Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Salinan M Asclepias fascicularis təmá:l milkweed (Merriam has as broad-leaf 55:393) unique not recorded in A ; probably same word as 58, 59 with n-l sound simbolism other complex t- is articular prefix (should be /T/ Mason 1918:130 0 1 1 0 0 no
Seri (Comcaac) Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Serrano Asclepias fascicularis ky7at gum plant inheritance *kɨya- Takic See Cahuilla kiyat “A. eriocarpa” other complex -t NPN KCHill ms 2001:25 0 1 1 0 0 no
Southern Paiute Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Southern Sierra Miwok Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Southern Ute Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Tübatulabal Asclepias fascicularis yūwil ju:ˈwil string, buckskin thong (see species notes) unique probably from UA *yu “hair, cornsilk” plus wi- “fiber” same other complex ju:ˈwi-l milkweed.sp-npn (historically, wi-l “twine” Hill 2010:129 no info 0 1 no info gathered (wild) women mainly for fiber; may have provided pot greens from young shoots 0 0 Inland California to Washington, Baja California dry areas, slopes, 50-2200 m (Jepson Herbarium) no
Tümpisa Shoshone Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Wappo Asclepias fascicularis néth plant from which string is made, milkweed-like in exuding a white sap when broken (CHM confirms A. fascicularis 52:587) unique underived Sawyer 1965:80 0 1 1 0 0 no
Washo Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Western Mono Asclepias fascicularis ah-pe'-ze Milkweed, narrow leaf (Asclepias fascicularis) unique same underived Merriam 59:91 no info 0 1 for chewing gum -- stir in water, heat and pull with hands (Merriam 59:91) no info gathered (wild) women see food notes 0 0 no
Wintu Asclepias fascicularis koo-roo'-te A. fascicularis unique other complex q'ur “pick grass in fistfuls”?? Merriam 56:121 McCloud 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yavapai Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Palewyami Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Yawdanchi Asclepias fascicularis hòngatchhungatch milkweed used for gum inheritance Nim-Yokuts Kroeber has same form for Yowlumne same reduplicated Kroeber 1907:243 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Yowlumne Asclepias fascicularis hO:nac'hOna:c' milkweed (M. has ho'-nut and says “may be narrow-leaf milkweed”) inheritance Nim-Yokuts Kroeb er has same form for Yawdanchi “milkweed used for gum” same reduplicated Newman 1944:36 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yuki Asclepias fascicularis hamč'uk A greens, gray-leaf, eaten like clover; chewing gum (probably A. fascicularis JHH) unique underived probably complex, but unidentified elements Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 0 1 1 0 0 no
Yuma Asclepias fascicularis missing missing missing 0 1 1 0 0 no