beaver
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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 | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Big Smokey Valley Shoshone | Castor | a'nii | Beaver (Castor) | inheritance | *ha'ni | Numic | Stubbs 155 (2008:61) (may be only C. Numic) | same | underived | Crum & Dayley 1993:264 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cahuilla | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Central Sierra Miwok | Castor | 7éč:ešy- | beaver | unique | other complex | -y nominalizer | Freeland & Broadbent 1960 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemehuevi | Castor | ɂipí·na | Beaver (Castor) | loan | Mojave | Mojave ɂapen; 'Iipay Aa āp-pin'; and note Resemblant C. kpiny | same | underived | Merriam 59:523 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Barbareno | Castor | ʧip'ik | beaver | unique | Central Chumash only | noted by Kroeber; Yok. toepuek, etc. but loan is into Central Chumash | WW | %t'ypyk | underived | Beeler 1978:174 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ineseno | Castor | ʧ'ɨpɨk | beaver | inheritance | Central Chumash only | noted by Kroeber; Yok. toepuek, etc. but loan is into Central Chumash | WW | %t'ypyk | underived | Applegate155 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Obispeno | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ventureno | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cocopa | Castor | kpiny | beaver | unique | Resemblant M. ɂapen | same | underived | Crawford 1989 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comanche | Castor | pamouetz | beaver | inheritance | *pa?wVN | Numic | Stubbs 156 (2008:61). This Rejon form is very interesting because it has been re-etymologized in modern Comanche as pa' - wyhtyma “water-blocks.off” (dam builder) | same | other complex | has -tsi ABS; pa may be “water” | Rejon 1995:19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Cupeño | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Esselen | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabrielino | Castor | to-le-vah'-che | toˈlivaʧi (?) | beaver | loan | probably Yokuts which has something like *t'ovik ?? | same | underived | toˈlivaʧi -- might have been toˈlivaʧi -y, | -ʔaʧ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 417 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | no info | no info | no info | 0 | 0 | North America | streams, wetlands | no | ||||||||||||||
| Iipay 'Aa | Castor | āp-pin' | Beaver (Castor) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Mojave ɂapen; Cocopa kpin ?? | same | underived | Merriam 55:169 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kawaiisu | Castor | kah'-ze | beaver | semantic shift | *kawa | Proto-Uto-Aztecan | Stubbs 1423 (2008:242) | broader (also woodrat) | other complex | kawa-zi rat-ABS | Merriam 59:363 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Kiliwa | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kitanemuk | Castor | cɨpɨʔkɨʔ | ˈʦɨpɨʔkɨʔ; H heard no final ʔ | beaver | loan | Yokuts | also loaned into Chumash, e.g. Barb. chip'ik; Yokuts has toepuek, doepuk, etc., see Kroeber | WW | %t'ypyk | same | underived | -ʔacit "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Anderton 1988:288 | no info | 2 | 1 | probably not, probably got skins in trade | no info | no info | no info | no info | 0 | 0 | beaver pelts traded; I doubt if Kitanemuk country had many beavers | North America | streams, wetlands | no | ||||||||||
| Lake Miwok | Castor | tími | beaver | unique | underived | Callaghan 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luiseño | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maidu | Castor | too'-pen-de | beaver | unique | relative clause | t'u-- “dam” -- remainder probably from verb, unidentified | Merriam 57:5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mojave | Castor | ɂapen | beaver | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Iipay Aa āp-pin'; and note Resemblant C. kpiny | same | underived | a beaver clan | Munro et al.1992 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mutsun | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nisenan | Castor | pa:nc'aka | beaver | unique | other complex | morphology unknown | Uldall & Shipley 1966 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Paiute | Castor | ha'ngisa | Beaver | inheritance | *ha'ni | Numic | Stubbs 155 (2008:61), possibly a loan?? | same | underived | Thornes 2003:53 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Sierra Miwok | Castor | hen:it-y- | beaver | inheritance | Eastern Miwokan | In Mip | other complex | -y nominalizer | Callaghan 1987 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plains Miwok | Castor | hen:it | beaver | inheritance | Eastern Miwokan | In Mins | underived | Callaghan 1984 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan A | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan M | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seri (Comcaac) | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serrano | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Paiute | Castor | paontsI | Beaver (Castor) | inheritance | *pa'wVN | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 156 (2008:61) I concur with Stubbs that it looks like “water-fox” | same | other complex | has -tsi ABS | Sapir 1930:609 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Sierra Miwok | Castor | me:sy- | beaver | unique | underived | Broadbent 1964: | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Ute | Castor | pawíi-cI | Beaver | inheritance | *pa'wVN | Numic | Stubbs 156 (2008:61) | same | other complex | has -ci ABS ; etymologically from a phrase with pa-”water” and perhaps “fox”? | Givon 1979 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tübatulabal | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tümpisa Shoshone | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wappo | Castor | meyna7á:we | beaver? CHM has as “otter”, beaver also as mā'-nah mo'-lah 52:565 | unique | phrase | water-X | Sawyer 1965 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washo | Castor | c'imhélhel | beavers | unique | reduplicated | c'im is prefix | WPD | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Mono | Castor | pazuukU | beaver | loan | Sierra Miwok | Sierra Miwok cukuH “dog” (see Callaghan 2001 who thinks it's an old loan all over), note Proto-Wintun *cuku plus pa:- “water” | same | phrase | water-dog | Bethel et al.:136 | no info | 2 | 1 | no info | hunted | men | no info | 0 | 0 | pelts probably traded | no | |||||||||||||||||
| Wintu | Castor | bisu:s | beaver, otter, mink | unique | underived | Pitkin 1985 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yavapai | Castor | h.ɲā(·)qa | beaver | unique | unknown | Shaterian 1983 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Palewyami | Castor | dibek | beaver | inheritance | *t'/t''ɨpɨkʰ | Yokutsan | Whistler & Golla 1986:354 | WW | %t'ypyk | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:201 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yawdanchi | Castor | töpük | beaver | inheritance | *t'/t''ɨpɨkʰ | Yokutsan | Whistler & Golla 1986:354 | WW | %t'ypyk | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:201 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yowlumne | Castor | tèpik, t'e:bik | beaver | inheritance | *t'/t''ɨpɨkʰ | Yokutsan | Whistler & Golla 1986:354 | WW | %t'ypyk | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:201 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuki | Castor | missing | missing | missing | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuma | Castor | ah-pon' | Beaver (Castor) | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Iipay Aa āp-pin'; and note Resemblant C. kpiny | unknown | Merriam 61:451 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | no |
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