sage herb

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 Artemisia californica tsam'-mal Sage herb, Artemisia ludoviciana loan Yokuts Yowlumne tsam'-mal; same underived C. H. Merriam 72-79, 72-781, 60-471 2 2 1 0 0 no
Big Smokey Valley Shoshone Artemisia californica missing inheritance missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Cahuilla Artemisia californica húulvel ˈhu:lvel California sagebrush inheritance *hulupa- Northern Uto-Aztecan S1597 (Stubbs 2009:233) same other complex hu:lve-l (root might be complex; might be from hu-hulve-l) -m-exan-7a "inanimate" -m-exan-7a (for inanimates; literally "somehow - doing.thus- possessed.noun") Seiler&Hioki 1979:59 no info 2 tea from boiled plant given to girls to drink at initiation, to ensure “the proper maturation of girls into womanhood” 2 1 to induce menstruation,tea taken before each menstrual period; given to newborn babies one day after birth “to flush out their system”. For colds, leaves chewed fresh or dried, or mixed with tobacco and other leaves and smoked. Used in sweathouse “for var gathered (wild) women leaves boiled into tea 0 0 California, Baja California Chaparral and “dry foothills communities” no
Central Sierra Miwok Artemisia californica hukú7me- sage inheritance Sierra Miwokan only Misn huk:u:me- “wild tea” (CHM's Pycnanthemum), tea for health; probably not the right word underived must be etymologically complex Freeland & Broadbent 1960 2 2 1 0 0 no
Chemehuevi Artemisia californica murúnavə the ordinary sage plant [not sagebrush for which JPH has a different term] unique NOT in Kawaiisu; S. Paiute has this for “Greasewood”?? Stubbs 1640 (2008:235) same other complex has -pɨ ABS Harrington Chemehuevi Noun List 2 2 1 0 0 no
Chumash Barbareno Artemisia californica wew'ey Sage herb unique Central Chumash only reduplicated Beeler 1978:188 2 2 1 0 0 no
Chumash Ineseno Artemisia californica wewey' Sage herb inheritance Central Chumash only Central Chumash reduplicated Merriam 55:27; (Applegate 192) 2 2 1 0 0 no
Chumash Obispeno Artemisia californica tilho A. californica, Coastal Sagebrush unique underived Timbrook 2007:36 2 2 1 0 0 no
Chumash Ventureno Artemisia californica wewe'y Artemisia californica inheritance Central Chumash only In Barbareno reduplicated Timbrook 2007:36 2 2 1 0 0 no
Cocopa Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Comanche Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Cupeño Artemisia californica wikut ˈwikut juniper (see species notes) inheritance *wikwa-t Takic S1606 (Stubbs 2009:233 -- with the usual anachronistic reconstruction); See Kitanemuk wikwat, perhaps a different plant same other complex ˈwiku-t sage.herb-npn Hill & Nolasquez 1973:178 no info 2 tea given to girls at initiation (Strong 1929) 2 brewed in tea 1 tea given to induce menstruation gathered (wild) women leaves brewed for tea 0 0 California, Baja California Chaparral and “dry foothills communities” no
Esselen Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Gabrielino Artemisia californica huru:var huˈru:var romerillo inheritance *hulupa- Northern Uto-Aztecan Note Lu. hulvul “Artemisia californica”; S1597 (Stubbs 2009:233) same other complex huˈru:va-r romerillo-npn -hi:n classifier for worthwhile possessions Harrington 128 no info 2 may be given to boys and girls at initiation in ball with salt but that plant not identified for Gabrielino; Couplet: hulvul, qawiimal; a Chingichngish plant (Harrington 1978:133); 2 1 poultice for sores, swellings, tumors, rheumatic pains, eye medicine (McC 102) gathered (wild) women diverse methods 0 0 California, Baja California Chaparral and “dry foothills communities” no
Iipay 'Aa Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Kawaiisu Artemisia californica pɨɨsivɨ Artemisia dracunculus unique same other complex pɨɨsi-vɨ sage.herb-ABS bɨ, pɨ bɨ, pɨ seem to classify for plants, trees 1981 Zigmond 2 2 1 rheumatism cure; I think this is the functional equiv. to californica, ludoviciana; douglasiana, tugusoovɨ, also medicinal 0 0 no
Kiliwa Artemisia californica kw+?hiw sage-like plant, Spanish romerita unique same relative clause kw-?hiw REL-? Mixco 1985 2 2 1 0 0 no
Kitanemuk Artemisia californica cakeʔe ˈʦakeʔe romerillo, Artemisia californica unique broader (plant and medicine derived) underived -niw possessive classifier for things Anderton 1988:280 no info 2 2 1 tie flowers to head for a headache, smoke of this and wekwat together cures dreaming of dead people gathered (wild) women see medicinal notes 0 0 California, Baja California Chaparral and “dry foothills communities” no
Lake Miwok Artemisia californica kic(c)in wormwood (Merriam:Sage herb) inheritance Miwokan Pmie *kyčin; Pmiw kičin “with reverse assimilation postulated for Miw and Mip” Callaghan 1971:31; note PW *qeti (Shepherd 2005) underived Merriam 57:537 2 2 1 0 0 no
Luiseño Artemisia californica húlvul ʹhulvul sagebrush; Bright, Artemisia californica inheritance *hulupa- Northern Uto-Aztecan S1597 (Stubbs 2009:233) same other complex ʹhulvu-l sage.sp-non.possessed.noun Elliott 1999: 353 no info 2 Couplet: hulvul, qawiimal; a Chingichngish plant (Harrington 1978:133); hill of hulvul in ground painting (Kroeber 1925:662) 2 no info no info no info no info 0 0 California, Baja California Chaparral and “dry foothills communities” no
Maidu Artemisia californica múnmùni wormwood unique reduplicated -i is stem former Shipley 1963 2 2 1 0 0 no
Mojave Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Mutsun Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Nisenan Artemisia californica toom A. ludoviciana unique underived Merriam 57:251 2 2 1 for medicine and poultice CHM 0 0 no
Northern Paiute Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Northern Sierra Miwok Artemisia californica kici:ng-y- wormwood, A. vulgaris (CHM: sage herb (A. ludoviciana) inheritance Miwokan Pmie *kyčin; Pmiw *kičin (Callaghan 1971) other complex -y nominalizer Callaghan 1987 2 2 1 0 0 no
Plains Miwok Artemisia californica kutch-un Sage herb inheritance Miwokan Callaghan 1971 gives Pmie *kyčin; Pmiw *kičin “with reverse assimilation postulated for Miw and Mip” ?? Clearly related forms, no Mi reconstruction found underived Merriam 57:503 2 2 1 0 0 no
Salinan A Artemisia californica stah'-lït Sageherb unique Salinan underived Merriam 55:391 2 2 1 0 0 no
Salinan M Artemisia californica stah-lah', stah'-lit' stah'-lut sageherb (A. ludoviciana) unique Salinan underived Merriam 55:391 2 2 1 0 0 no
Seri (Comcaac) Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Serrano Artemisia californica hoo'-troo-hwahtR Artemisia californica inheritance *hulupa- Northern Uto-Aztecan S1597 (Stubbs 2009:233) other complex -t NPN Merriam 60:119 2 2 1 0 0 no
Southern Paiute Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Southern Sierra Miwok Artemisia californica kitch-ing'-ŭ extrapolating, water damage sage herb (A. ludoviciana) inheritance Miwokan Pmie *kyčin, Pmiw *kičin (Callaghan 1971) other complex -y Merriam 57:471 2 2 1 used for medicine as amulet to protect from disease. Keeps off ghosts of dead 0 0 no
Southern Ute Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Tübatulabal Artemisia californica missing (not found this far east) missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Tümpisa Shoshone Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Wappo Artemisia californica c'àpe:na7k'óy'a wormwood, a kind of Artemisia (CHM confirms 52:587) unique phrase elements unknown Sawyer 1965 2 2 1 used for poultices and soaking swollen feet Sawyer 1964:122 0 0 no
Washo Artemisia californica taHng-al-e'-sik; mă-moo'-se sage herb unique phrase elements unknown Merriam 55:319 2 2 1 0 0 no
Western Mono Artemisia californica koo'-sid-dup Sage herb (Artemisia ludoviciana) unique same other complex has classifier, probably -pɨ; stem may be complex -pɨ Merriam 59:91 no info 2 2 seeds may be used 1 used as poultice, not for tea Merriam; at Ghost Dance, people who had not followed rules would fall unconscious and be rubbed with “kosidab” until they regained cs (Gayton 2:290) gathered (wild) women leaves soaked for poultice 0 0 no
Wintu Artemisia californica qeti wormwood (CHM confirms 56:25) inheritance *qeti Wintun Shepherd 2005 underived Pitkin 1985 2 2 1 used for rheumatism when boiled up in a liquor (Pitkin 1985) 0 0 no
Yavapai Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Palewyami Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Yawdanchi Artemisia californica mah-trim'-me sage herb, A. californica unique same underived Merriam 58:507 2 2 1 0 0 no
Yokuts Yowlumne Artemisia californica tsam'-mal sage herb, A. ludoviciana inheritance Valley Yokuts Merriam has Tinlinne tsam'-mal' same underived Merriam 58:571 2 2 1 0 0 no
Yuki Artemisia californica hanmu:le A, pun'-kuni C, p!úCnkini Cs wormwood inheritance *pun- Yukian Schlichter 1985 phrase han- ? Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 2 2 1 0 0 no
Yuma Artemisia californica missing missing missing 2 2 1 0 0 no